An American Hitchhiking Odyssey.
With this brilliant inquiry into America's peculiar relationship with its highways and byways, NPR essayist Tim Brookes takes his place in eh uniquely American literary tradition that includes Huck Finn, Steinbeck's beloved Charlie, and Jack Kerouac.
Recreating a trip he made in his youth, Tim Brookes sets off to hitchhike across the United States. The result is a comic gem in the tradition of Bill Bryson's 'A Walk In The Woods', and a lively and thoughtful look at how America has changed in the intervening years.
In 1973, as a young British expatriate, Tim Brookes embarked for America, seduced by the romance and mystery suggested by a single word in a promotional travel poster: Buffalo. While perhaps misled about the nature of that city, Brookes thumbed his way to California and Vancouver, back across Canada, and down to New York, and found a vast, enchanting land that captured his heart and his imagination.
Now, twenty-five years later, he's back on the road, not only to revisit old roadside haunts, but to find out whether the days, and the America, of his fond memories still exist.
