Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity Purkis Jonathan
Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity Purkis Jonathan At a time of climate crisis, isolation and social breakdown, Driving with strangers is a manifesto to alter how we…
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Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity Purkis Jonathan
At a time of climate crisis, isolation and social breakdown, Driving with strangers is a manifesto to alter how we think about our place in the world. Join Purkis on the kerbside, in search of Woody Guthrie as he examines the politics of the travelling song, deep on a Russian hitch-hiking expedition, or considering the politics of travel and risk on the 'Highway of Tears' in British Columbia, Canada. A life-long hitchhiker and long-distance traveller, Purkis journeys through the history of hitchhiking to explore the unique opportunities for cooperation, friendship, sustainability and openness that it represents.
Purkis, a self-styled 'vagabond sociologist', is the perfect passenger to accompany you on a journey away from isolation, social distancing, closed The reader is taken on a panoramic road trip through a century of hitchhiking across different decades, countries and continents.