The footloose American : following the Hunter S. Thompson trail across South America

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The footloose American : following the Hunter S. Thompson trail across South America

Title remainder

following the Hunter S. Thompson trail across South America

Statement of responsibility

Brian Kevin

Creator

• Kevin, Brian

Author

• Kevin, Brian

Subject

• trueIndians of South America
• Indians of South America -- Social conditions
• trueIndidgenous peoples of South America
• trueIndigenous peoples of South America
• South America -- Description and travel
• South America -- Politics and government
• South America -- Social conditions
• Thompson, Hunter S. -- Travel -- South America
• Voyages and travels
• Kevin, Brian -- Travel -- South America
• trueAmerican people in South America
• trueAmericans in South America

Language

eng

Summary

"An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten journey through South America. In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, who would become America's bestselling "gonzo journalist," completed a year-long journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for a now-defunct paper called the National Observer. With the gritty humor and keen political observations for which he later became known, correspondent Thompson reflected on topics that continue to make headlines today: the rise of leftist populism, struggles over resource extraction, the marginalization of indigenous peoples. In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompson describes in his letters and lost Observer stories, The Footloose American is at once a gripping personal journey and a thought-provoking study of culture and place"--

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contains biographical information

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DLC

Dewey number

980

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction