Two Hundred Miles From Baghdad: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Lost Art of Hitchhiking - Softcover

Salome, Louis J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 195866930X ISBN 13: 9781958669303

Publisher: Piscataqua Press, 2024

Synopsis

By planes, trains, and automobiles, journalist Lou Salome has hitched his way through some of the most interesting - and volatile - places on Earth.

In September 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney McNeil's blacksmith shop to the town's blinking traffic light and began hitchhiking to college.

He was seventeen. Decades later his hitching experience led Salome through deserts and hostile zones in Asia, Europe and Africa. At the end of his internationalist life, he thumbed in the New Hampshire woods to gauge how times had changed. This is his story of the adventures, risks and the fun he embraced while engaging in a lost art.

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About the Author

A New Englander by birth and formal education, Lou Salome was a newspaper reporter and editor for thirty-five years. He reported on national political conventions, corruption in politics, government and big business, and was an award-winning editorial writer.He was twice given the Distinguished Service Award by Sigma Delta Chi, the National Society of Professional Journalists. He was the Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent and the London-based European correspondent for Cox Newspapers from 1989 to 1998.

Edition details

• Publisher: Piscataqua Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 195866930X
• ISBN 13: 9781958669303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194