One for the Road: An Outback Adventure

"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." —Chicago Tribune

Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback.

What follows is a hilarious, hair-raising ride into the hot red center of a continent so des...