Description
Title: Thumbing It: A Hitchhiker’s Ride to Wisdom
Author: NOSKE BARBARA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 08/11/2018
Imprint: CONSIGNMENT STOCK
Price: $15.00
Publishing status: Active
Books about hitchhiking are a rarity and those written by a woman are rarer still.
Barbara Noske is mad about hitchhiking, especially in trucks, and has forty years experience of it, in, among other places, Europe, Algeria, the Sahara, as well as the vast expanse of Canada and the Australian outback.
In her book, which switches from the lighthearted to the serious and back again, she talks about real hitchhiking as it was practised in the twentieth century, in an age with no smartphones, apps or Airbnb. When hitchhiking was still a step into the uncertain and everything was a matter of chance. You never knew who you were hitching a ride
with, how far you would get, or where you would spend the night in a house, a cave or a ditch. Nothing was arranged in advance, nothing googled ahead of time.
Noske calls this kind of hitchhiking the anarchist among modern modes of travel. She writes about strange and funny adventures, surprising encounters and, once or twice, also about the unpleasant and even shocking events she has experienced.
Barbara Noske is a Dutch anthropologist and philosopher whose field is the relationship and the similarities between humans and animals.She lives in the Dutch countryside with a horse and a bike. She has no drivers licence and no smartphone.
ISBN: 9780646992525