Jonathan Purkis

Gebundenes Buch

Driving with Strangers

What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity

Beschreibung

Driving with strangers is an ambitious, timely and intellectually eclectic contribution to how we think about mobility, the rationale behind its different forms and why our philosophy of travel and societal structures are closely related. -- .

Autor

Jonathan Purkis is a writer, independent academic and musician. He grew up in Hull, studied and later taught sociology at several English universities, and has published many works on environmental protest and anarchism. Since 1982, he's covered 40,198 miles by thumb and travelled with 1309 total strangers. He's hitched with his border collie, a guitar, two ice axes and half a drum kit (although not at the same time).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781526160041
• ISBN-10: 1526160048
• Artikelnr.: 61118683