Another Fine Mess
Publisher: Penguin Random House; Yellow Jersey
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781787290235
Subjects: Automobile travel; Ford model t automobile; United states, description and travel; United states, social conditions, 21st century; United states, politics and government, 21st century
Description: TRAVEL WRITING. Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford. Lacking any mechanical knowledge or intuition, he sets off to bully a car from East to West armed only with a top speed of 25 mph, a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels (again) and a truckload of 'wise-ass Limey liberal gumption'. His route takes him exclusively through Trump-voting counties as he travels the nation meeting the everyday folk who voted red, or rather orange. Along the way he drives through the disintegrating rust belt, Detroit - the spiritual home of the Model T, through the mid-west, cowboy country and finally threading he way through a lonely stretch of Oregon, 'where everyone is either a lumberjack or a prison officer'. And he needs to do it in three months before the wall goes up and he's booted back to Blighty.