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A hell of a place to lose a cow : an American hitchhiking odyssey

Brookes, Tim 1953- (Author).

Summary: Tim Brookes was a 20-year-old Oxford student when he began hitchhiking in 1973 from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again. His experiences led him to leave England and settle in New England. Twenty-five years later he decides to re-create his odyssey of 1973. "Highlighted by wonderful photographs, this book revisits old stomping grounds and discovers new ones, tracks down old friends and makes new ones, remembers old impressions of America and deftly sketches new vignettes of a country at once very different and surprisingly the same." -- Jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 0792276833
ISBN: 9780792276838
Physical Description: print
308 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2000.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

1 A Barometer of Goodwill 1 -- 2 Anywho 10 -- 3 Clothing Technologies 16 -- 4 Road to Jericho 20 -- 5 Searching for That Wonderful Tribe 24 -- 6 Been a Long Time Since I Did the Stroll 29 -- 7 Vagabond, When Rich 48 -- 8 "Public" Being a Dirty Word 57 -- 9 In the Silverware Drawer 70 -- 10 Dysgeography 78 -- 11 Missile Silos Would Make Great Condos 84 -- 12 A Frontier Planet 96 -- 13 "A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow" 104 -- 14 Red Wind at the Mirage 113 -- 15 Another Casualty of the Sixties 123 -- 16 Between Me and the Basted Egg 143 -- 17 Laundry on the Freeway 147 -- 18 Don't Start Singing Before the Money Gets Through 152 -- 19 Fundamentally Nomadic 161 -- 20 An Overlapping Assortment of Fantasies 174 -- 21 Trodden by Rogues 179 -- 22 Last Don 185 -- 23 Idiot A, Idiot B, and the Journey Back East 194 -- 24 Hate Kickin' This Thing out of Cruise Control 201 -- 25 Jeff Bridges Has a Ranch Up Here 213 -- 26 Where My Dead Lie Buried 228 -- 27 Hitchhiker Remains at Large 236 -- 28 Lord Said It Was All Right 242 -- 29 Falling by the Wayside 249 -- 30 Between Order and Chaos 254 -- 31 Bitumen in Their Veins 262 -- 32 You Aren't Going to Blow Us Up, Are You? 266 -- 33 Dowsing for Kindness 285 -- 34 We Should Do All Right 296 -- Appendix A A Short History of Hitchhiking 301 -- Appendix B Product Testing Notes 306.