EVERYWHERE BUT MISSOURI, MATE - with the sequel - OF WALLS AND MEN

Savage, Steve

Published by Private Printing, Australia, 2003

About this Item

320 pp. The first book has been signed by Steve Savage on the title page; the second book has a personalized inscription by Savage on the title page. Both are in trade paperback format. Both have light rubbing on the corners with flat uncreased spines; aside from the author's handwriting, no interior markings. In the first book, he sold his worldly belongings and bought an airline ticket. He left his home in Australia to spend five months hitchhiking around North America, from the Arctic Circle to Alaska to Hollywood, and from Maine to Miami Beach. Armed with a cheap digital camera, a second hand laptop and a sturdy pair of hiking boots, he set off on this modern day odyssey. In the second book, he set out on an overland journey from Hadrian's Wall in England, via the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China. That was the plan. Not all plans work out. In Everywhere, the Contents are: From a Land Down Under; Walkabout Again; Familiar Taste of Maple Syrup; Alaska the Last Frontier; It's a Long Way to the Top of the World; Sucking on a Dead Man's Toe - The Things They Do in the Yukon; If It's Tourist Season Why Can't We Shoot the Bastards; Freshly Showered - the Art of Hitchhiking; Trannyshack; This City She Loves Me; The City That Has No Right; Ghost Towns and Canyons; Rocky Mountain High; The Pub with No Beer - Life in a Dry County; Spittin' in the South - Redneck Wonderland; The Big Apple - Reflections on a City Stirred Not Shaken; On Campus; Tongues of Flame - Fall in New England; Diplomats and Cadillacs - The Dodgiest Pubs in All Ontario; The Kindness of Strangers; Couchsurfers and Freeloaders; Ridin' the Highways on the Dirty Dog; Hitchin' a Ride on an Eighteen Wheeler; The Driveaway Car - America's Best Kept Secret; The Long Arm of the Law; Following Disasters; In a Land of Bush; The Starbucks Virus and the Fattening of America; No Smoking Ray; Dude Where My Home; Tell Me Where to Go; Frequently Asked Questions; and Australian Slang Dictionary; followed by an index. In Walls, the Contents are: For Those Who Came in Late; Care for a Blizzard; Return to ol' Blighty; Bletchingley - A Cast of Stars; My Winter Home; The Girl Who Never Gave Up; Spring Has Sprung - On the Road Again; Funky Cold Medinas; Monkey Forests and Desert Dunes; Rocking the Kasbah; Not Your Usual Month in the Sun; Breaking the Rules; The Hunt for Aceitunas Negras; Return to Redneck Wonderland; At Home in Madrid; North to Russia; Berlin Wall; A Fairytale City; Czech This Out; The Mystery Ride; Work Did Not Set Them Free; Take Me to the Bar Mlezcny; Duke Gedeminas and the Iron Wolf; Tree Lopping Latvian Style; The Communists Are Revolting; The Hunt for Lenin; Those Crazy Russians; The End. or Is It; and Travel Quotes. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 222231

Bibliographic Details

Title: EVERYWHERE BUT MISSOURI, MATE - with the ...

Publisher: Private Printing, Australia

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good+

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Editions.

Book Type: Book