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Riding with strangers : a hitchhiker's journey / Elijah Wald.

by Wald, Elijah.

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Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c2006.

Wald, Elijah -- Travel -- United States.

Hitchhiking -- United States.

United States -- Description and travel.

United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005028296.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005028296-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005028296-d.html

228 p. ; 23 cm.

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.

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