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Thumbing a Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada

By Linda Mahood

Book information

Publisher
UBC Press
Year
2018
ISBN
0774837330, 9780774837330
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20569037 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
344\345
Time added
2019-06-06 15:55:39

Description

As a national network of roads spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking.Thumbing a Rideexamines its rise and fall in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. Many equated adventure travel with freedom and independence, but a counter-narrative emerged of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists demanded a clampdown on a transient youth movement they believed was spreading anti-establishment nomadism. Linda Mahood asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of passage, and about adult intervention that turned a subculture into a pressing moral and social issue.

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