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Driving with strangers : what hitchhiking tells us about humanity / Jonathan Purkis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purkis, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitchhiking--History.
- Hitchhiking.
- Hitchhiking--Philosophy.
- Travel--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 301 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 visitors' 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1526160048
- 9781526160041
- OCLC:
- 1232226835
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