Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile
By Arthur Jerome Eddy
Length8h 43m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "To disarm criticism at the outset, the writer acknowledges a thousand imperfections in this discursive story. In all truth, it is a most garrulous and incoherent narrative. Like the automobile, part of the time the narrative moves, part of the time it does not; now it is in the road pursuing a straight course; then again it is in the ditch, or far afield, quite beyond control and out of reason. It is impossible to write coolly, calmly, logically, and coherently about the automobile; it is not a cool, calm, logical, or coherent beast, the exact reverse being true. The critic who has never driven a machine is not qualified to speak concerning the things contained herein, while the critic who has will speak with the charity and chastened humility which spring from adversity. The charm of automobiling lies less in the sport itself than in the unusual contact with people and things, hence any description of a tour would be incomplete without reflections by the way; the imagination once in will not out; it even seeks to usurp the humbler function of observation. However, the arrangement of chapters and headings—like finger-posts or danger signs—is such that the wary reader may avoid the bad places and go through from cover to cover, choosing his own route. To facilitate the finding of what few morsels of practical value the book may contain, an index has been prepared which will enable the casual reader to select his pages with discrimination."
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length8 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1FOREWORD
11CHAPTER TEN
2CHAPTER ONE
12CHAPTER ELEVEN
3CHAPTER TWO
13CHAPTER TWELVE
4CHAPTER THREE
14CHAPTER THIRTEEN
5CHAPTER FOUR
15CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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6CHAPTER FIVE
16CHAPTER FIFTEEN
7CHAPTER SIX
17CHAPTER SIXTEEN
8CHAPTER SEVEN
18CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
9CHAPTER EIGHT
19CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
10CHAPTER NINE
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