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Riding with strangers : a hitchhiker's journey /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wald, Elijah
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Wald, Elijah > Travel > United States.
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
Hitchhiking > United States.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.