Riding with strangers : a hitchhiker's journey /

This fascinating tale of the author's cross-country hitchhiking journey is a captivating look into the pleasures and challenges of the open road. As the miles roll by he meets businessmen, missionaries, conspiracy theorists, and truck drivers from all ages and ethnicities who are eager to open...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wald, Elijah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Wald, Elijah > Travel > United States.
Wald, Elijah
Since 1971
Hitchhiking > United States.
Auto-stop > États-Unis.
TRAVEL > General.
TRAVEL > United States > General.
Hitchhiking
Manners and customs
Travel
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
États-Unis > Descriptions et voyages.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1971-
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreshadowings
  • A defense of the gentle art of hitchhiking
  • Sound and fury
  • Service plaza
  • Cop
  • Laws of the highway
  • Dangers
  • Chicago independent
  • Missionary
  • Gods of the highway
  • Chinese-Canadian tourists
  • Mexican driver
  • Night
  • Truck stop
  • Malaise
  • Rounding St. Louis
  • Weirdo
  • Regional manager
  • The literary life
  • Hannibal
  • Hopping freights
  • Townspeople
  • Sleeping rough
  • The tramp's alarm clock
  • Midtown crossroads
  • Of grain elevators and skydiving
  • The easy life
  • Of toll bridges and torts
  • Of air conditioners and conspiracy
  • A historical investigation
  • The art and science of hitchhiking
  • A vehicular taxonomy, or natural history of the highway
  • A fellow musician
  • A ride across the plains
  • Another night on the road
  • Red desert and Little America
  • Russian
  • The melting pot
  • The whiteness of the drivers
  • Corvette
  • Russian redux
  • Dark streets
  • And the gods laughed
  • Envoi : Mexico 1987.

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