false 94528 2 After a year working an office job in Sydney, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Tony Horwitz finds himself longing for the open road. Spurred on by a colleague's "Aren't you a little too old for this game?" he sets off on a 7,000-mile adventure around Australia, hitchhiking to Alice Springs and beyond: through desolate mining towns, sheep stations, countless bush pubs (<I>do not</I> attempt to match his beer intake), and the forbidding, Martianesque emptinesses of Australian deserts. On the way he encounters hostile, friendly, and downright strange natives; jumps a train; survives a harrowing accident; and uses his relentless sense of humor to face down a cyclone: <blockquote>I prop my pack against the fence as a windbreak. Huddled behind it, I pull on two pairs of pants, three shirts, four pairs of socks--my entire wardrobe in fact, except for the dung-covered shirt and five pairs of elastic-waisted underwear. No room for dignity here, at the center of a cyclone. I put the jockey shorts over my head, one pair at a time, fitting the fly over my nose to let a little oxygen in.</blockquote> A wily melange of tenderness, eye-popping lunacy, and occasional white-knuckled fear, <I>One for the Road</I> will leave you yearning to have the never-ending-blue Oz sky above, the flavor of that red, red dust in your mouth, and a tinnie to wash it all down with. <I>--Jhana Bach</I> 91135 1988 One for the Road: Revised Edition total:145|5:26|4:57|3:52|2:8|1:2| 145 532 196 13 4 0 true false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 17 17:31:26 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 17:32:39 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed May 06 15:48:10 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:48:35 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 15:53:37 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 15:55:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 05 12:32:12 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 12:41:41 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Fri Aug 01 11:24:21 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:25:13 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Oct 25 13:39:49 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 13:40:56 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 26 08:24:58 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 08:27:31 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Mar 22 18:35:36 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 18:37:42 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 03 19:52:57 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 19:53:39 -0700 2007 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4280990/]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 10 11:02:30 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:51:41 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 11:02:30 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Tue Sep 04 00:05:06 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 00:05:41 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 05 17:12:10 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 17:13:08 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Wed Sep 09 14:49:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 14:52:02 -0700 2009 1
I was totally disappointed by this book, despite the interesting cover art. I felt that, after each chapter, I had just read the same chapter over and over again.

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