That Ol’ Thumb
Mike Jay: Hitchhiking, 23 June 2022
Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity
by Jonathan Purkis.
Manchester, 301 pp., £20, January,978 1 5261 6004 1 Show More
by Jonathan Purkis.
Manchester, 301 pp., £20, January,
“... on their rucksacks as they criss-crossed Europe meeting up with pen pals and old army buddies. Jonathan Purkis, a self-described ‘vagabond sociologist’, sees hitchhiking as the inheritor of a long tradition celebrating self-sufficient travel, dating back to Lao Tzu’s aphorisms (the journey as more important than the destination) and medieval ... ”
