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1968 and I'm Hitchhiking Through Europe by Joe Mack Pdf
Hitchhiking? Was he out of his mind? No, just taking his chances and lucky for us, talking to people everywhere he went. In 1968, the horror of the Second World War was still fresh in the memory of adult Europeans, and America shared in the thanks for their liberation - Joe became the beneficiary of their good feelings towards his country. Not only did he get rides from them, people took him into their homes and told him stories from their hearts. Others were not so kind. Join his journey through ten countries as Europeans and fellow Americans talk about the events of 1968 that are worth remembering and sharing. Experience the pleasure and pain that comes with dependence on strangers, and is found behind closed doors or in crazy minds. See life in the streets through his eyes during a year of hope, trust, love, hate, and revolution.
Author : Richard Ivan Jobs Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 369 pages File Size : 50,5 Mb Release : 2017-05-22 Category : History ISBN : 9780226462035
In Backpack Ambassadors, Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly helping knit the continent together.
World famous actor Sam Neill and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past. Since the '60s and '70s - the heyday of hitching - people have thumbed rides worldwide. Money never changes hands, but all manner of social transactions take place. These tales will open your eyes and take you back - or forward. Just when you think you've heard it all, turn the page. You'll discover you haven't! Tom Sykes writes fiction and non-fiction. His stories and articles have been published in the UK, USA, Canada and Southeast Asia Simon Sykes is an author, linguist, musician, designer, and carpenter who hitchhiked extensively during the 1970s. This exciting new book follows on the heels of their popular British, and North American collections.
This book is about a 22-year-old young man wanting to see the world on a limited budget. If he could get to Europe from Michigan, then he could hitchhike around Europe and beyond. The author writes in a way that makes you feel that you are there with him as he has one predicament after another predicament. This journey was before the cell phone, but somehow he and his friend meet up. After two weeks, they decide that it's better to split up and meet again in two months. This young man continues his journey to Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Denmark. Making his way to Bremerhaven, Germany, he asks for assistance from the American Consulate to get a job on a ship going back to the States. The Consulate set him up with a meeting with a ship's Captain, and he was hired on an American ship.
In March 1954, two young Australian girls set out on what became a five-year travelling adventure across Europe and North America.This book details the first 6 months of that adventure as they arrive in Naples, Italy, and begin to get a feel for how to get around. Using their thumbs for rides they venture across Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, and Morroco, leading a life on the road that is far removed from what they left behind in Sydney. This is a heartfelt memoir of a form of traveling that has all but disappeared. The book recalls the numerous adventures and encounters Peggy and her traveling companion Jane had all across western and southern Europe, experiencing the warmth and kindness of strangers that make thumbing a ride such a rewarding form of travel.
Beauty is in the Street by Joachim C. Häberlen Pdf
'An ambitious and masterly account of utopian protest in Europe ... Fast-paced, with an eye for telling detail and written with a light touch' Robert Gildea In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history. In the decades between, Joachim C. Häberlen argues, new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting. Activism moved beyond traditional demonstrations, from squatting to staging 'happenings' and camping out at nuclear power plants. People protested in the way they dressed, the music they listened to, the lovers they slept with, the clubs where they danced all night. New movements were born, notably anti-racism, women's liberation, gay liberation, and environmentalism. And protest turned inward, as activists experimented with new ways of living and feeling, from communes to group therapy, in their efforts to live a better life in the here and now. Some of these struggles succeeded, others failed. But successful or not, their history provides a glimpse into roads not taken, into futures that did not happen. The stories in Häberlen's book invite us to imagine different futures; to struggle, to fail, and to try again. In a time when we are told that there are no alternatives, they show us that there could be another way.
Bill Stoever hitchhiked some 50,000 miles in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He recounts the triumphs and discomforts, the glorious adventures and lonely miseries, the dangers, diseases and detentions, the nice guys, weirdos and women that he experienced in 86 countries.
The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics by Yannis Tzioumakis,Claire Molloy Pdf
The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary - this collection covers a broad range of topics, including: third cinema, cinema after 9/11, eco-activism, human rights, independent Chinese documentary, film festivals, manifestoes, film policies, film as a response to the post-2008 financial crisis, Soviet propaganda, the impact of neoliberalism on cinema, and many others. It foregrounds the key debates, concepts, approaches and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema, discussing films from around the world and including examples from film history as well as contemporary cinema. It also explores the wider relationship between politics and entertainment, examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking, itself, is a political act.
Have Thumb - Will Travel! by Elrae Combrink,Pearl Harris Pdf
Have Thumb - Will Travel! provides a fascinating glimpse into Europe of the 60s, pre-EU, when the Berlin Wall was still standing, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were still under communist rule, a time when bed and breakfast accommodation in Youth Hostels cost 6 US cents per night and when hitchhiking was the accepted norm for young people to see the world. This is a book about and for real travellers, those who regard themselves as more than mere tourists. We hope that you, too, will enjoy this journey into the past! This is the tale of three young South African blondes who set sail on a Union Castle mailship from Cape Town to Southampton to begin the hitchhiking adventure of a lifetime. For the entire year of 1968, they criss-crossed the European continent, meeting kindly and often unusual folk along the way. They subsisted on an unbelievable shoestring budget, travelling free of charge, through good fortune and the grace of perfect strangers, their only currency being their thumbs and cheerful smiles. During that one year, Elrae, Pearl and Colleen each travelled approximately 12,000 kilometres, from the southern tip of England, north to Scandinavia, east to Berlin, Yugoslavia and Greece and south to Spanish shores. On their return to the United Kingdom, they explored England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. At one point, their paths diverged and they met up with other hitchhiking companions along the way. The locals they encountered on this long, audacious route, the enthralling sights and experiences ensure a thrilling rollercoaster ride for all readers who enjoy travel to far-away places, as well as for armchair travellers of all ages. The countries visited in this incredible travel adventure include: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, West and East Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Spain, France and Monaco. The author of Have Thumb - Will Travel is Elrae Combrink, with former hitchhiking companion, Pearl Harris as contributing writer and editor.
Recruited to work on a big documentary project, Julian goes to New York convinced he has hit big time at last. Finding the project cancelled he wanders the city streets and hitchhiking to San Francisco slowly starts to seem like the most sensible option for his career as a travel writer.The story finds an unseen America in rough shape; Julian meets a place of Interstates, forgotten towns and food deserts, always grappling with the scale and energy of the US. Julian tells a tale of Steinbeck, Kerouac and the vast, thundering indifference of American geography and culture at the start of a new century.
Alternative Spirituality, Counterculture, and European Rainbow Gatherings by Katri Ratia Pdf
This book explores the phenomenon of Rainbow Gatherings in Europe. These countercultural events form radically alternative temporary societies in the peripheries of modern states and manage themselves without centralized power, market economy or institutionalized forms of religion. The volume offers a vivid description of life in the Gatherings, analyses the main ideological tenets and places the meetings in historical and cultural context. It considers how the Rainbow Gathering tradition is rooted in networks of alternative spirituality and environmental counterculture but also reflects broader shifts in religion and religiosity.
