Road Trip

Jack Kerouac's groundbreaking novel—soon to be a major motion picture with a starstudded castIn what is sure to be one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, will finally hit the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood'...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drugsoaked, addlebrained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken....

"Beautifully written, simply written, and hilarious." - Tim Ferriss

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Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a welltodo family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cas...

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of h...

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22yearold Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George _x0097_ publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide _x0097_ and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite _x0097_ heir to the estate that owned one of Atticu...

Tomato Rodriguez hops on her motorcycle and embarks on the ultimate seatoshiningsea allgirl adventure a story that combines all the best parts of Alice in Wonderland and Easy Rider as Tomato crosses the country in search of the meaning of life, love, and the perfect post office. Flaming Iguanas is a hilarious novel that combines text, line d...

Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered 78,000 miles through 45 countries, living with peasants and presidents, in prisons and palaces, through wars and revolutions. What distinguishes this book is that Simon was already an accomplished writer. In 25 years this book has c...

Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know Americas nomads truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tiedyed concert followers, flea market traders, retirees who live year round in ...