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One for the Road: An Outback Adventure

Name: One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9780375706134
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Contributors:

Tony Horwitz

Publisher:

Vintage

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel, True Crime

Book Subcategory:

Essays & Travelogues, Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Special Interest

Book Topic:

Adventure

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

Series:

Vintage Departures

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The product is eligible for a complimentary return within 30 days from the date of purchase. Furthermore, individual items are shipped within 24 hours of receiving the order.

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Release Date:

1999-10-05

ISBN 13:

9780375706134

Weight:

0.52 lbs

Size:

7.99 x 5.26 x 0.66 inches

Pages:

224

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"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.

About the Author
Tony Horwitz lives in Waterford, Virginia.

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