Driving with strangers : what hitchhiking tells us about humanity /: what hitchhiking tells us about humanity. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Purkis.
• Authors: Purkis, Jon
• Contents: Prologue: ‘A Romantic, gallant and even brilliant adventure’; 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’s visitor’s 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; Afterword: The bookcase at the end of the road; ; Acknowledgments: A hitchhiker’s guide to the journey; Notes; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 910.01; Travel -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526160034; 9781526161413
• Related ISBNs: 9781526160041
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