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Two Hundred Miles From Baghdad: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Lost Art of Hitchhiking
By planes, trains, and automobiles, journalist Lou Salome has hitched his way through some of the most interesting - and volatile - places on Earth.
In September 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney McNeil's blacksmith shop to the town's blinking traffic light and began hitchhiking to college.
He was seventeen. Decades later his hitching experience led Salome through deserts and hostile zones in Asia, Europe and Africa. At the end of his internationalist life, he thumbed in the New Hampshire woods to gauge how times had changed. This is his story of the adventures, risks and the fun he embraced while engaging in a lost art.
Book Details
- Publisher: Piscataqua Press
- Publish Date: Sep 10th, 2024
- Pages: 194
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.45in - 0.56lb
- EAN: 9781958669303
- Categories: • Arab & Middle Eastern• Journalism
About the Author
Salome, Louis J.: - A New Englander by birth and formal education, Lou Salome was a newspaper reporter and editor for thirty-five years. He reported on national political conventions, corruption in politics, government and big business, and was an award-winning editorial writer.He was twice given the Distinguished Service Award by Sigma Delta Chi, the National Society of Professional Journalists. He was the Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent and the London-based European correspondent for Cox Newspapers from 1989 to 1998.
Praise for this book
"These colorful tales of a foreign correspondent are tied together by a deep and - against all odds - enduring love of hitchhiking" - Thomas Swick, author of Falling into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer"In a memoir written in crackling, vivid, veteran newsman style, Lou Salome reports on adventures and assignments from Algeria to Uzbekistan and Moscow to Africa. Under constant pressure, uncertainty and seat-of-the pants navigating, he spent decades on the move, hitchhiking on everything from planes to camels, he sought to meet the people above, below and behind the drama and terror of the world's most conflicted countries. He tells of the powerless and the minor functionaries in the daily lives of those most affected by the cruelties and pains inflicted on them when their only wishes are to survive, find security, and freedom from fear. "Lou opens the door to worlds we all need to know. He closes with thoughts on his own country, the United States, leaving questions for us all to investigate. " --Tom Anthony"Though Lou Salome's hard work and resourcefulness have earned him exclusive interviews with world leaders, what he really cares about is the resilience of working people in impoverished countries as they struggle to survive wars, famine, and kleptocracy. Here he weaves together stories about hitching rides on practically every form of transport, from small town commuter trains in Massachusetts to perpetually broken-down trucks in Afghanistan's high mountains, and from a swift sea voyage on a sleek catamaran to a desperate river crossing amid gunfire on a meager excuse for a raft. The book is a classic reporter's notebook, full of adventures and revelations about the tactics and trade-offs the best foreign correspondents must use to get their stories. Most of all, it's a song of praise and compassion for people whose lives have been devastated by seemingly endless wars, and a plea to Americans to truly see them and care about them." --Heather Dewar, retired journalist w for The Miami News, The Miami Herald, and The Baltimore Sun