Driving with strangers : what hitchhiking tells us about humanity /
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2021].
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The intention of a tradition: definitions of hitchhiking
- 2. How to think like a hitchhiker: an introduction to vagabond sociology
- 3. In search of Woody Guthrie: singing the politics of hitchhiking
- 4. `Maybe we will meet a nice person': hitchhiking, conflict, human nature
- 5. The great European adventure trail: hitchhiking as a measure of freedom
- 6. The Alaska Highway hitchhiker visitors' book: the personality of the `extreme hitchhiker'
- 7. The power of the gift without return: hitchhiking as economic allegory
- 8. The myth of the great decline: hitchhiking and the increasing levels of trust in the world
- 9. Climatic dangers: hitchhiking and the relative realities of risk
- 10. Good news from Vilnius: the rich life of hitchhiking in former communist countries
- 11. A prescription for hitchhiking? Travel and talk in the age of pandemics and extinction.