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This is an incomplete overview of [[hitchhiking]] in '''media'''. Please add books you read, and more.
== Books ==
* '''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0006382274?ie=UTF8&tag=hitchwiki07-21&linkCode=as2&camp=2506&creative=9310&creativeASIN=0006382274 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe]''' by Ken Welsh: outdated but contains great information for Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the "Communist countries."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''. In English.
* '''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1844033821?ie=UTF8&tag=hitchwiki07-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=1844033821 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. In English.
* '''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1418429643?ie=UTF8&tag=hitchwiki07-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=1418429643 Derelict Days... Sixty years on the Roadside Path to Enlightenment]''' by [[User:Irvthom|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). In English.
* '''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0006ES18I?ie=UTF8&tag=hitchwiki07-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=B0006ES18I 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. In English.
* '''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1862543623?ie=UTF8&tag=hitchwiki07-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=1862543623 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. In English.
* [[Music]] about hitchhiking
* [[Video]]s about hitchhiking
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