Dog Days - Tales from an American Road Trip
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908824441 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 322 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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'Ace book. Carefully observed and very funny and dark at the same time. Dog Days drew me in 100 percent' - Graham Johnson, author of Hack, Powder Wars, and Druglord
'He pulled a cassette out of the glove box and put it in the stereo, pressed rewind and then play. They drove 15,000 miles around 45 states, by car and Greyhound bus, known as the 'Dog' by the fearsome locals who ride it. Was it still 1980 in Memphis? Some fast-paced blues crackled out of the speakers.' 'The guide book said it was 'well worth making the trip to this colourful outdoor market'. 'Ace book. It was a market of just fruit and nothing else. They began their trip believing they knew a lot about the country, but quickly discovered just how different from the rest of the world it really is. Follow Andrew and his girlfriend Lucy through landmarks including Monument Valley and Yellowstone, to a New York Yankees baseball game, a dude ranch in Montana and a rodeo in Wyoming. Dog Days drew me in 100 percent' - Graham Johnson, author of Hack, Powder Wars, and Druglord. Carefully observed and very funny and dark at the same time. More than just a travel memoir, Dog Days provides vivid descriptions of the physical landscape, and unravels the characters they encountered along the way -- with some very candid observations of America and its people. It was time we stopped listening to the crap guide book
. He thought he knew a lot about America and its culture, but during a three-month road trip around the United States, he found it to be vastly different to what he expected. Born in Australia in 1972, Andrew Thompson lived and practised Law in London for 12 years, before embarking on a three year world tour that has taken him to 32 countries, including all of the habitable continents. Spawned from the American road trip, Dog Days is his fi
An amusingly acerbic American travelogue Andrew Thompson appears to have everything going for him. He has enough money to travel and stay in decent hotels, a beautiful girlfriend, and the youth and time to enjoy his good fortune. And yet - like the American Dream itself - not everything is as perfect as it . No ordinary travel book A very readable book about an American roadtrip. Witty, well-balanced and never dull. I particularly like the way the author contrasts the smug confidence of America with the undesirable types he meets on the Greyhound bus as he travels across the country. Everything. Best Travel Book Ever! I highly recommend Dog Days to anyone who likes America, travel or just reading good books. It describes a road trip around the whole of the US and also talks about America and its people in a very humorous way. I had trouble putting the book down I enjoyed it so muc