#Huntr s thomson series#

Thompson's journeys through South America shot into the prism of the modern travelers aesthetic. 'Brian Kevin has achieved a miraculous first with this brilliant travelogue that follows Hunter S. Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite, CBS News Historian, and literary executor of Hunter Thompson's estate Kevin is a helluva good writer and, if the Gonzo King were alive, he would give The Footloose American a thumbs up.' 'Brian Kevin has written a marvelous travel romp following the Proud Highway of Hunter S. Kevin fill us in on the careening journey that helped define Thompson as a journalist, but he also delivers an engrossing and opinionated travel guide to modern Latin America.' -New York Times WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION 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. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. 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. 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.

It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself.

#Huntr s thomson series#

Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. Thompson's forgotten route through South America Description An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S.