In this entertaining volume, you'll find Governor General Award-winner Margaret Avison and American sci-fi novelist Piers Anthony rubbing shoulders with Blag Dahlia and Ben Bachelder. You'll read of Jello Biafra's encounter with shoe-eating cows, Alan Dean Foster's ride on a whale shark, and Kage Baker's hilarious account of actors broken down on Interstate 5. Filmmakers, politicians, stand-up comedians, poets, journalists, and carpenters all come together through the shared experience of hitching a ride. Throughout the '60s and '70s — the heyday of hitchhiking — this form of travel was a key means of transportation. Today, people continue to hitchhike all over the world. Money never changes hands, but all manner of social transactions take place. Hilarious, sad, nostalgic, sometimes scary, and always entertaining, these travelers' tales will open your eyes and take you back — or forward. Just when you think you've heard it all, turn the page. You'll discover you haven't!

No Such Thing as a Free Ride?: A Collection of Hitchhiking Tales, North American Edition

Travel

Sykes, Tom

Sykes, Simon

Reference

Goose Lane Editions

A literary road movie to take you on a trip of a lifetime, featuring a collection of hitch-hiking tales from around the world by over 90 contributors, including pieces from Alastair Campbell, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Max Hastings, George Monbiot, Lembit Opik, Jeremy Vine, Jenny Jones and Mike Leigh.

No Such Thing As a Free Ride? : A Collection of Hitcher's Tales

Cassell Illustrated*

Great Houses of Scotland

Bookmart

<p>World famous actor Sam Neil and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past. Since the '60s and '70s - the heyday of hitching - people have thumbed rides worldwide. Money never changes hands, but all manner of social transactions take place. These tales will open your eyes and take you back - of forward. Just when you think you've heard it all, turn the page. You'll discover you haven't!</p>

The Hitchers of Oz

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

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