Lost on the Way: Adventures in 40,000 Miles of Hitchhiking

Financed by nothing but a whim while bouncing from one European country to another, author Ronald Dane eventually finds himself in Gibraltar, where he and a friend decide to visit the continent across the Strait. This trip, however, was almost his last. In this travel memoir, Dane narrates the story of his hitchhiking adventures in the early 1970s when, as a young man, he traveled 40,000 miles through twenty-some countries over a seven-year period, learning to speak French, German, and Span...