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The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway by James Dodson

The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway runs 15.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Dodson (about 10.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15.2listening hrs
The Americasstore shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day31 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 15.2 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway is an audiobook by James Dodson: a 15.2-hour unabridged recording, read by James Dodson, released July 1, 2025, on the The Americas shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
15.2 hrs
Narrated by
James Dodson
Released
July 1, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
The Americas
ISBN
9781797195674

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway as an audiobook?

The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway runs 15.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.1 hours.

Is The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway?

The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway is narrated by James Dodson.

Is The Road That Made America: Travels on America's First Frontier Highway worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.1 hours, saving 5.1 hours.