Riding with strangers
Subtitle: a hitchhiker's journey
By: Elijah Wald.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Wald, Elijah -- Travel -- United States; Hitchhiking -- United States; United States -- Description and travel; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Table of contents: title: Foreshadowings; title: A defense of the gentle art of hitchhiking; title: Sound and fury; title: Service plaza; title: Cop; title: Laws of the highway; title: Dangers; title: Chicago independent; title: Missionary; title: Gods of the highway; title: Chinese-Canadian tourists; title: Mexican driver; title: Night; title: Truck stop; title: Malaise; title: Rounding St. Louis; title: Weirdo; title: Regional manager; title: The literary life; title: Hannibal; title: Hopping freights; title: Townspeople; title: Sleeping rough; title: The tramp's alarm clock; title: Midtown crossroads; title: Of grain elevators and skydiving; title: The easy life; title: Of toll bridges and torts; title: Of air conditioners and conspiracy; title: A historical investigation; title: The art and science of hitchhiking; title: A vehicular taxonomy, or natural history of the highway; title: A fellow musician; title: A ride across the plains; title: Another night on the road; title: Red desert and Little America; title: Russian; title: The melting pot; title: The whiteness of the drivers; title: Corvette; title: Russian redux; title: Dark streets; title: And the gods laughed; title: Envoi : Mexico 1987.