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9780792277293

Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow : My American Hitchhiking Odyssey

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  • ISBN13:

    9780792277293

  • ISBN10:

    0792277295

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2001-07-10
  • Publisher: National Geographic
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Summary

A noted cultural critic and NPR essayist offers a lively and provocative account of his hitchhiking odyssey across the United States, documenting his experiences along the way and reexamining America's onetime love affair with the road trip. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Table of Contents

A Barometer of Goodwill
1(9)
Anywho
10(6)
Clothing Technologies
16(4)
The Road to Jericho
20(4)
Searching for That Wonderful Tribe
24(5)
Been a Long Time Since I Did the Stroll
29(19)
The Vagabond, When Rich
48(9)
``Public'' Being a Dirty Word
57(13)
In the Silverware Drawer
70(8)
Dysgeography
78(6)
Missile Silos Would Make Great Condos
84(12)
A Frontier Planet
96(8)
``A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow''
104(9)
Red Wind at the Mirage
113(10)
Another Casualty of the Sixties
123(20)
Between Me and the Basted Egg
143(4)
Laundry on the Freeway
147(5)
Don't Start Singing Before the Money Gets Through
152(9)
Fundamentally Nomadic
161(13)
An Overlapping Assortment of Fantasies
174(5)
Trodden by Rogues
179(6)
The Last Don
185(9)
Idiot A, Idiot B, and the Journey Back East
194(7)
Hate Kickin' This Thing out of Cruise Control
201(12)
Jeff Bridges Has a Ranch Up Here
213(15)
Where My Dead Lie Buried
228(8)
The Hitchhiker Remains at Large
236(6)
The Lord Said It Was All Right
242(7)
Falling by the Wayside
249(5)
Between Order and Chaos
254(8)
Bitumen in Their Veins
262(4)
You Aren't Going to Blow Us Up, Are You?
266(19)
Dowsing for Kindness
285(11)
We Should Do All Right
296(5)
Appendix A: A Short History of Hitchhiking 301(5)
Appendix B: Product Testing Notes 306

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