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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 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 Thompso

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      Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
      Publication Date: 20/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780770436377, 978-0770436377
      ISBN10: 0770436374
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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 Thompso

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