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This is an incomplete overview of hitchhiking in media. Please add books you read, and more.

Books

Hitchhiking in literature:

  • Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe by Ken Welsh: outdated but contains great information for Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the "Communist countries."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.
  • 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.
  • Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri. A pound a gallon and more for petrol — cars increasingly have to be shared and hitching is one good way. This book, written by hundreds of thumbers, lays bare the feelings, fantasies and justifications of the roadside. In English.
  • 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). In English.
  • 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.
  • Off the map - A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. This story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life. OTM.
  • Norton's Ghost (2010) - A novel rooted heavily in homelessness and hitchhiking. His world thrown into doubt with the death of his father, Kyle Dearmond takes to hitchhiking, where he finds meaning, friends, and a new direction despite the chaos of the wandering road. Website. The book is also available under a Creative Commons by-nc-nd License. Download
  • Round Ireland with a fridge, a book by the British journalist Tony Hawks telling the story of his hitchhiking trip around Ireland (with a fridge)
  • On The Road, Kerouac's classic written in 1951, about his road trips in the US, has been an inspiration to many hitchhikers ever since.
  • Travels With A Road Dog: Hitchhiking Along the Roads of the Americas is a memoir describing the experiences of a young woman who gave away her belongings in the 1990's to hitchhike around the United States, Mexico, the Bahamas and Venezuela. Along the way she picks up a dog for a hitchhiking companion. This memoir describes her journey of road life that lasted almost five years.
  • The Tao of Hitch-hiking by Marty Segal. With the hitch-hiker's road as the laboratory, The Proof and Technique of Human Energy Transfer, The Quantum Theory of Fleeting Encounters, Non-electronic Information Highways, The Suppressed Significance of Godel's Theorem, Perfect Recall and Creativity, and dozens of Peoples' Wisdoms fuse into a Science Of Living. In English.

Russian

  • 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.

French

News articles

Some links to hitchhiking in the news media. See Google News for some current news items.

Audio

Scientific articles and research

  • Bryan H. James, 1966; "Helping and Hitchhiking", Northwestern University.
  • Connecticut Legislative Committee, 1975; Report of the “Committee To Study The Solicitation Of Rides On Motor Vehicles”, Connecticut.
  • Chesters, Graeme and Smith, David, 2001; “The Neglected Art of Hitch-hiking: Risk, Trust and Sustainability”, Sociological Research Online 6/3. Online available under: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/3/chesters.html
  • Crassweller Peter, et. al., 1972; “An Experimental Investigation of Hitchhiking”, The Journal of Psychology 82, pp. 43-47.
  • Clifford, Margaret M. and Cleary, Paul, 1971; "The Odds in Hitchhiking", University of Iowa/University of Wisconsin.
  • DiMaggio, Paul, 1971; Sociability and the Hitchhiker; unpublished honours thesis, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
  • Dallmeyer, Kenneth D. et.al., 1975; Hitchhiking: a viable addition to a multimodal transportation system? , Center for Urban Transportation Studies, University of Colorado at Denver.
  • Delannoy, Robbe, 2011; "Liften en liftgevers. Een exploratief onderzoek naar vertrouwen tussen onbekenden", Universiteit Gent.
  • Fiedler, Joachim, et al., 1989; "Anhalterwesen und Anhaltergefahren: unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des “Kurztrampens”", BKA-Forschungsreihe Sonderband, Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden.
  • Franzoi, Stephen, 1985; “Personality Characteristics of the Cross Country Hitchhiker”, Adolescence 20, pp. 655-668.
  • Garner, Alice, 2008; "Risk and reward: the (lost?) art of hitchhiking", University of Melbourne.
  • Garner, Alice, 2008; "Time & The Hitcher", University of Melbourne.
  • Guéguen, Nicolas, 2007; "Bust Size and Hitchhiking: A Field Study", Université de Bretagne Sud.
  • Grundstad, Robert, 1982; Anti-hitchhiking Laws, Legislative Research, Legislative Administration Committee, Salem Oregon.
  • Johnson, Robert W. and Johnson, James H., 1978: "A Cross-Validation Of The SN Scale On The Psychological Screening Inventory With Female Hitchhikers", University of Wisconsin/University of Utah.
  • Morgan, Charles J., et al., 1975; "Hitchhiking: Social signals at a distance", Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, University of Washington, Seattle.
  • Müller, Albrecht, 2013; "Trampen als soziale Praxis. Zwischen Individualtourismus und Konsumkritik", Universität Wien.
  • O'Regan, Michael, 2012; "Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitchhiking". In: Fullagar, S., et al., 2012; "Slow tourism: experiences and mobilities", pp. 128-142.
  • Pomazal, Richard J. and Clore, Gerald L., 1973; "Helping on the Highway: The Effects of Dependency and Sex", Journal of Applied Social Psychology, University of Illinois.
  • Pudinski, W., 1974; California Crimes and Accidents Associated with Hitch-hiking, California Highway Patrol, Operational Analysis Section.
  • Purkins, Jonathan, 2012;"The Hitchhiker as Theorist: Rethinking Sociology and Anthropology from an Anarchist Perspective". In: Kinna, Ruth, 2012; "The continuum companion to anarchism", New York.
  • Rinvolucri, Mario, 1974; Hitch-hiking, self published, London. Webified version
  • Schlebecker, John T., 1958; “An Informal History of Hitchhiking”, The Historian 20, pp.305-327
  • Snyder, Marc, et al., 1974; "Staring and Compliance: A Field Experiment on Hitchhiking", Journal of Applied Social Psychology, University of Minnesota.
  • Tobin, Nona and Sexton, Sam, 1972; Attitudes toward and the effects of physical variables on hitchhiking, unpublished masters thesis, California State University, San Jose.
  • Viard, Sylvain, 1999; "Auto-stop. Approche géographique", Université de Paris, Nanterre.
  • A Dearth of Research: Does anyone really know anything about hitch-hiking?
  • Experiments in Hitch-hiking: What works best?

See also

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