The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America

by Brian Kevin

Book Overview

An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America

In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0770436374
• ISBN13: 9780770436377
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"