Title: The footloose American
Description: "An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten journey through South America. In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, who would become America's bestselling "gonzo journalist," completed a year-long journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for a now-defunct paper called the National Observer. With the gritty humor and keen political observations for which he later became known, correspondent Thompson reflected on topics that continue to make headlines today: the rise of leftist populism, struggles over resource extraction, the marginalization of indigenous peoples. In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompson describes in his letters and lost Observer stories, The Footloose American is at once a gripping personal journey and a thought-provoking study of culture and place"--
Subjects: Social conditions, Politics and government, Travel, Indians of South America, Description and travel, Thompson, hunter s., 1937-2005, Indians of south america, social conditions, South america, description and travel, South america, politics and government, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, TRAVEL / South America / General, HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Places: South America
People: Brian Kevin, Hunter S. Thompson