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One for the Road: Revised Edition by Horwitz, Tony
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780375706134
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375706135
ISBN-13
9780375706134
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1170710
Product Key Features
Book Title
One for the Road : an Outback Adventure
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Special Interest / Adventure, General, Australia & Oceania, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
1999
Features
Revised
Genre
Travel
Book Series
Vintage Departures Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-040476
Reviews
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." -- Chicago Tribune "A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." -- The Telegraph (Sydney) "Lively, fast-paced and amusing . . . a consistently interesting and entertaining account." -- Kirkus Reviews "Ironical, perceptive and subtle . . . will have readers getting out their maps and itching to follow Horwitz's tracks. . . . The internal journey is his finest achievement; he allows the reader into his heart, to go travelling with him there, sharing his adventures of the spirit." -- Sunday Times (London)
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." -- Chicago Tribune Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback. What follows is a hilarious, hair-raising ride into the hot red center of a continent so desolate that civilization dwindles to a gas pump and a pub. While the outback's terrain is inhospitable, its scattered inhabitants are anything but. Horwitz entrusts himself to Aborigines, opal diggers, jackeroos, card sharks, and sunstruck wanderers who measure distance in the number of beers consumed en route. Along the way, Horwitz discovers that the outback is as treacherous as it is colorful. Bug-bitten, sunblasted, dust-choked, and bloodied by a near-fatal accident, Horwitz endures seven thousand miles of the world's most forbidding real estate, and some very bizarre personal encounters, as he winds his way to Queensland, Alice Springs, Perth, Darwin--and a hundred bush pubs in between. Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two national bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic and Baghdad Without a Map , is the ideal tour guide for anyone who has ever dreamed of a genuine Australian adventure., "A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." -- Chicago Tribune "A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." -- The Telegraph (Sydney) Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback. What follows is a hilarious, hair-raising ride into the hot red center of a continent so desolate that civilization dwindles to a gas pump and a pub. While the outback's terrain is inhospitable, its scattered inhabitants are anything but. Horwitz entrusts himself to Aborigines, opal diggers, jackeroos, card sharks, and sunstruck wanderers who measure distance in the number of beers consumed en route. Along the way, Horwitz discovers that the outback is as treacherous as it is colorful. Bug-bitten, sunblasted, dust-choked, and bloodied by a near-fatal accident, Horwitz endures seven thousand miles of the world's most forbidding real estate, and some very bizarre personal encounters, as he winds his way to Queensland, Alice Springs, Perth, Darwin--and a hundred bush pubs in between. Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two national bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic and Baghdad Without a Map , is the ideal tour guide for anyone who has ever dreamed of a genuine Australian adventure. "Lively, fast-paced and amusing . . . a consistently interesting and entertaining account." -- Kirkus Reviews "Ironical, perceptive and subtle . . . will have readers getting out their maps and itching to follow Horwitz's tracks. . . . The internal journey is his finest achievement; he allows the reader into his heart, to go travelling with him there, sharing his adventures of the spirit." -- Sunday Times (London)
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