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No Such Thing as a Free Ride?

A Collection of Hitchhiking Tales, North American Edition

by (author) Simon Sykes & Tom Sykes

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
May 2008
Category
Road Travel, Essays & Travelogues, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864925053
    Publish Date
    May 2008
    List Price
    $19.95

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In this entertaining volume, you'll find Governor General Award-winner Margaret Avison and American sci-fi novelist Piers Anthony rubbing shoulders with Blag Dahlia and Ben Bachelder. You'll read of Jello Biafra's encounter with shoe-eating cows, Alan Dean Foster's ride on a whale shark, and Kage Baker's hilarious account of actors broken down on Interstate 5. Filmmakers, politicians, stand-up comedians, poets, journalists, and carpenters all come together through the shared experience of hitching a ride.

Throughout the '60s and '70s — the heyday of hitchhiking — this form of travel was a key means of transportation. Today, people continue to hitchhike all over the world. Money never changes hands, but all manner of social transactions take place. Hilarious, sad, nostalgic, sometimes scary, and always entertaining, these travelers' tales will open your eyes and take you back — or forward. Just when you think you've heard it all, turn the page. You'll discover you haven't!

About the authors

Simon Sykes is an author, translator, musician, and designer.

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Tom Sykes is a writer of fiction, editor, and columnist whose novella The Blank Space was published in 2008.

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