Kevin Brian - The Footloose American Following The Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An adventure - filled and thought - provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America In 1963, twenty - five - year - old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here on the front lines of the Cold War that this then - unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who would become America's iconic "gonzo journalist" was born in the streets of Rio the mountains of Peru and the black market outposts of Colombia. 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.
Title: The Footloose American Following The Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America
Author(s): Kevin Brian
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division Of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Barcode: 9780770436377
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 5/20/2014
Category: Travel Writing