Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2025-06-18 Public domain in the USA. 240 Estep, E. Ralph (Edwin Ralph) 1873 1918 Estep, Edwin Ralph Estep, Ralph 09017608 El Toro : $b A motor car story of interior Cuba $aDetroit, MI :$bPackard Motor Car Company, $c1909. The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "El Toro : A motor car story of interior Cuba" by E. Ralph Estep is an adventure travelogue written in the early 20th century. It recounts a small American team’s bid to drive a Packard across Cuba’s roadless interior, turning a business errand into a hard-bitten overland expedition. Led by Sidney D. Waldon with companions Edwin S. George, Fred Crebbin, the narrator, and their Cuban interpreter Rogelio, they confront stone trails, swamps, rivers, and mountain passes while sketching lively portraits of rural Cuban people and places far from tourist Havana. The opening of this travelogue follows the party from Havana’s smooth boulevard into a brutal landscape of rocks, ruts, and bridgeless rivers, where they camp in the open, bargain for food in palm‑thatched huts, and learn to hack paths and build makeshift brush causeways. They inch from Camp Solitude past Benavides and Tosca, pick up Rogelio at Matanzas, and thread sugar fields, dry riverbeds, and ox‑cart ruts, often fording streams and jacking the car over stone steps. After a swamp traps them at dusk, locals help lever the car free and christen it “El Toro,” and the crew roars triumphantly into Santa Clara by night. Misled toward Camajuani and caught in driving rain, they claw over the Santa Fe passes, corduroy bogs with palm trunks, and wade rivers before reaching Camajuani, then slog on via Placetas through mill yards jammed with bull‑drawn cane carts. Nights bring flea‑ridden cots, a balcony bunk, and finally hammocks in a pig shed at Casa Cinco. At last an old Spanish road delivers them over stone bridges into Sancti Spiritus, where crowds cheer—after which the climactic push ends quietly as they load El Toro onto a flatcar and leave by rail. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240622181244estep 1909 US Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Cuba -- Description and travel Automobile travel -- Cuba F1751 Text Category: Adventure Category: Travel Writing Category: American Literature 153851 2025-07-30T07:45:16.706362 text/html 127546 2025-06-18T17:05:00 text/html 1645823 2025-07-30T07:45:21.552331 application/epub+zip 1647266 2025-07-30T07:45:18.358322 application/epub+zip 164504 2025-07-30T07:45:17.432362 application/epub+zip 1984766 2025-07-30T07:45:24.040319 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1783729 2025-07-30T07:45:20.827314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 126962 2025-07-30T07:45:16.256374 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 107110 2025-06-18T17:05:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13850 2025-07-30T07:45:24.184302 application/rdf+xml 19188 2025-07-30T07:45:17.724343 image/jpeg 3253 2025-07-30T07:45:17.583349 image/jpeg 1832609 2025-07-30T07:45:16.821332 application/octet-stream application/zip