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| − | '''Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe''' by Ken Welsh: outdated but contains great information for Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the "Communist countries." Was the inspiration for the title of Douglas Adams' ''Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy''.
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| − | '''No Such Thing as a Free Ride?''' A Collection of Hitchers' Tales. Compiled by Simon and Tom Sykes (Great Britain: Cassell Illustrated, 2005). A 192 pg. compilation of hitch-hiking lore and experience, contributed by more than a hundred, from both sides of the experience, mainly British. A great sampling.
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| − | '''Derelict Days... Sixty years on the Roadside Path to Enlightenment''' by [[Irv Thomas]]. (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004). Personal tales from across a 60-year span of American (and some European) hitch-hiking, in a 226-page text. Mostly written at the time of each adventure, these highlight the consciousness-raising aspect of the experience. Included is a newspaper account of the earliest American hitch-hiker on record (1916).
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| − | '''The Hitchhiking Grandmother''' by Grace Small, as told to Ruth Barton Davis (Forest Grove, OR: Pilgrim Way Press, 1990). Quite remarkable life story of a 46-year old woman who took up hitch-hiking in 1941, indulging her adventurous spirit thusly for some 25 years, both in the US and Europe. The 200-page book is cheaply obtainable on bookfinder.com.
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| − | '''Hitching - tales from the byways and superhighways''', by Kirsty Brooks. A collection of stories by hitchhikers, mostly Australians, hitching in Australia, the US, Europe and some random places. Some interesting stories.
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| − | ==Russian==
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| − | In Russian there are a lot of books about hitchhiking, ''Praktika Volnyh Puteshestvyi'' by Anton Krotov being the most famous and according to many essential reading material for hitchhiking in [[Russia]] - if you read Russian that is.
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| − | ==Links==
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| − | * [http://www.autostop.lt/faq/books.html List of books at autostop.lt]
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