The Footloose American by Brian Kevin

The Footloose American by Brian Kevin

An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgottenroute 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 upstartpaper 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 who would become America's iconic "gonzo journalist" was born in the streets of Rio, the mountains of Peru, and the black market outposts of Colombia.

In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompson describes in his letters and lost Observer stories, The Footloose American is at once a gripping personal journey and a thought-provoking study of culture and place.

Brian Kevin is the managing editor of Down East magazine and has written for a variety of publications, including Outside, Travel + Leisure, Men's Magazine, Audubon, and others. He is the author of The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Story, which has been honored or anthologized in Best Food Writing, Best American Essays, and Best American Sports Writing. Thompson's South American Route He is a resident of Damariscotta, Maine.

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ISBN 13	9780770436377
ISBN 10	0770436374
Title	The Footloose American
Author	Brian Kevin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Year published	2014-05-20
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of Maine Literary Award 2015
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.