Author: Douglas White
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
It was the year 1989. The Hitchhiker had just left a small town and begin´s to hitchhike west to California. And as he makes his journey across country. He makes stops in small towns and large cities and meets a variety of diffrent people. Front cover image. Leslie Nutting. Artist.
Diary of a 20 Something Hitchhiker
Author: Douglas White
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
It was the year 1989. The Hitchhiker had just left a small town and begin´s to hitchhike west to California. And as he makes his journey across country. He makes stops in small towns and large cities and meets a variety of diffrent people. Front cover image. Leslie Nutting. Artist.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
It was the year 1989. The Hitchhiker had just left a small town and begin´s to hitchhike west to California. And as he makes his journey across country. He makes stops in small towns and large cities and meets a variety of diffrent people. Front cover image. Leslie Nutting. Artist.
Diary of a 20 Something Hitchhiker
Author: Douglas White
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
It was the year 1989. The Hitchhiker had just left a small town and begins to hitchhike west to California. And as he makes his journey across country. He makes stops in small towns and large cities and meets a variety of diffrent people. Front cover image. Leslie Nutting. Artist.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
It was the year 1989. The Hitchhiker had just left a small town and begins to hitchhike west to California. And as he makes his journey across country. He makes stops in small towns and large cities and meets a variety of diffrent people. Front cover image. Leslie Nutting. Artist.
Roadside Americans
Author: Jack Reid
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469655012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a vehicle for liberation, living out the counterculture's rejection of traditional values. Yet by the time Ronald Reagan, a former hitchhiker himself, was in the White House, the youthful faces on the road chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac were largely gone—along with sympathetic portrayals of the practice in state legislatures and the media. In Roadside Americans, Jack Reid traces the rise and fall of hitchhiking, offering vivid accounts of life on the road and how the act of soliciting rides from strangers, and the attitude toward hitchhikers in American society, evolved over time in synch with broader economic, political, and cultural shifts. In doing so, Reid offers insight into significant changes in the United States amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of the Reagan Era.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469655012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a vehicle for liberation, living out the counterculture's rejection of traditional values. Yet by the time Ronald Reagan, a former hitchhiker himself, was in the White House, the youthful faces on the road chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac were largely gone—along with sympathetic portrayals of the practice in state legislatures and the media. In Roadside Americans, Jack Reid traces the rise and fall of hitchhiking, offering vivid accounts of life on the road and how the act of soliciting rides from strangers, and the attitude toward hitchhikers in American society, evolved over time in synch with broader economic, political, and cultural shifts. In doing so, Reid offers insight into significant changes in the United States amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of the Reagan Era.
Desert Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0307497909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. What else is new? “The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.”—The Boston Globe
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0307497909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. What else is new? “The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.”—The Boston Globe
Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever
Author: Jim Craddock
Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780787689803
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Describes and rates more than twenty thousand videos, and provides indexes by theme, awards, actors, actresses, and directors.
Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780787689803
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Describes and rates more than twenty thousand videos, and provides indexes by theme, awards, actors, actresses, and directors.
The Runaway's Diary
Author: Marilyn Harris
Publisher: New York : Four Winds Press
ISBN:
Category : Runaway teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A diary of a young girl's experiences during the three months she spends in Canada after running away from her troubled home.
Publisher: New York : Four Winds Press
ISBN:
Category : Runaway teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A diary of a young girl's experiences during the three months she spends in Canada after running away from her troubled home.
Film Composers Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Video Hounds Golden Movie Retrievee
Author: Gale Group
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9781578591206
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
Book Description
Containing the most extensive listing of movies available on video and a multitude of cross-referencing within its 10 primary indexes, this new edition includes 1,000 new movies (23,000 in all), expanded indexing, a fresh new introduction and more of the beloved categories.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9781578591206
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
Book Description
Containing the most extensive listing of movies available on video and a multitude of cross-referencing within its 10 primary indexes, this new edition includes 1,000 new movies (23,000 in all), expanded indexing, a fresh new introduction and more of the beloved categories.
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307476863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307476863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.