A Scotsman who heads to California to become a used-car salesman. The original American dream.
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Books
Reading is like traveling in itself. You open the pages and someone you’ve never met takes you far away. Actually, that makes it more like hitchhiking but anyway here are some reviews of Road Junky’s favourite travelogues.
The Names of Things by Susan Brind Morrow
An exceptional, dreamy journey through Egypt, Sudan and the frontiers where words meet reality.
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Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell
The tale of working 100 hour weeks in the kitchens of Paris and surviving as tramp on the streets of…
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Tales of a Road Junky – Tom Thumb’s Latest Book!
It took 6 years to write…
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What is the What by Dave Eggers
The autobiography of a displaced Sudanese man fleeing civil war and his rocky path to emigrating to the US. An…
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Roberto Saviano, Gomorra and the Camorra
The gritty journalistic investigation into one of the world’s largest mafia organisations.
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McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy
How do you find out whether you’re Irish or not? Well, driving around Ireland and stopping in every bar with…
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Voyageur by Robert Twigger
A poet on the road – self-indulgent rambling or a journey to the soul of humankind?
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Papillon by Henri Charriere
By Henri de Charriere The epic true story of a man who escaped from the penal colonies in South America…
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