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Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

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"Lift-Luck on Southern Roads" is a captivating account of Tickner Edwardes' journey through the rural South, exploring the various landscapes, communities, and cultures along the way. Edwardes' writing is both descriptive and insightful, providing readers with a vivid picture of the places he visits and the people he meets. The author's sense of humor and keen observations add depth and charm to the narrative, making it an engaging and enjoyable read. Overall, "Lift-Luck on Southern Roads" is a beautifully written travel memoir that offers a unique perspective on the South and its inhabitants. Highly recommended for anyone interested in road trips, travel writing, or Southern culture.

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Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear of the main roads, and, with two exceptions, the great towns; seeking out the least frequented lanes and by-paths. I covered the whole two-hundred-mile stretch of the way, with camera and pack at surprisingly little expense, by means of lifts taken in any chance vehicle that might be faring in my direction. My plan consisted in waiting by the roadside, or strolling gently onward until something on wheels, it mattered not what, overtook me. And thus by fits and starts - slow joltings in lumbering farm-waggons, steady crawls in brewers’ drays, quiet hours on the tail-boards of pantechnicons and a momentous evening in a missionary van - I found myself, after many days of travel, at my journey’s end in drowsy Arundel and a great and all but resistless longing to turn about there and then, and do the journey all over again. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This book is considered to be one of the very first to document the concept of hitchhiking as a method of travelling to your destination by asking to ride in various stranger’s vehicles for different sections of your journey. So then, why not join Mr Edwardes and me on this intriguing and fascinating trip as we go ‘off the beaten track’ and hitchhike our way through a magnificent part of Southern England at the turn of the last century? - Summary by Steve C


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