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...
| Основен автор: | Wald, Elijah. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
Chicago Review Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=195813 |
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Riding with strangers. |
Съдържание:
- 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.