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After a year working an office job in Sydney, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Tony Horwitz finds himself longing for the open road. Spurred on by a colleague's "Aren't you a little too old for this game?" he sets off on a 7,000-mile adventure around Australia, hitchhiking to Alice Springs and beyond: through desolate mining towns, sheep stations, countless bush pubs (do not attempt to match his beer intake), and the forbidding, Martianesque emptinesses of Australian deserts. On the way he encounters hostile, friendly, and downright strange natives; jumps a train; survives a harrowing accident; and uses his relentless sense of humor to face down a cyclone:
I prop my pack against the fence as a windbreak. Huddled behind it, I pull on two pairs of pants, three shirts, four pairs of socks--my entire wardrobe in fact, except for the dung-covered shirt and five pairs of elastic-waisted underwear. No room for dignity here, at the center of a cyclone. I put the jockey shorts over my head, one pair at a time, fitting the fly over my nose to let a little oxygen in.
A wily melange of tenderness, eye-popping lunacy, and occasional white-knuckled fear, One for the Road will leave you yearning to have the never-ending-blue Oz sky above, the flavor of that red, red dust in your mouth, and a tinnie to wash it all down with. --Jhana Bach


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

"A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney)

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 desolate that civilization dwindles to a gas pump and a pub. While the outback's terrain is inhospitable, its scattered inhabitants are anything but. Horwitz entrusts himself to Aborigines, opal diggers, jackeroos, card sharks, and sunstruck wanderers who measure distance in the number of beers consumed en route. Along the way, Horwitz discovers that the outback is as treacherous as it is colorful. Bug-bitten, sunblasted, dust-choked, and bloodied by a near-fatal accident, Horwitz endures seven thousand miles of the world's most forbidding real estate, and some very bizarre personal encounters, as he winds his way to Queensland, Alice Springs, Perth, Darwin--and a hundred bush pubs in between.
        Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two national bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic and Baghdad Without a Map, is the ideal tour guide for anyone who has ever dreamed of a genuine Australian adventure.

"Lively, fast-paced and amusing . . . a consistently interesting and entertaining account." --Kirkus Reviews

"Ironical, perceptive and subtle . . . will have readers getting out their maps and itching to follow Horwitz's tracks. . . . The internal journey is his finest achievement; he allows the reader into his heart, to go travelling with him there, sharing his adventures of the spirit." --Sunday Times (London)
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Funny and lucid travel writing, Janv. 28 2004
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The author, an American ex-pat living and working as a newspaper reporter in Australia, gets the wanderlust and decides to hitch around Australia. He circumnavigates the continent, nearly, and travels deep into the Northern Territory and South Australia. (He wisely avoids the utter emptiness of Western Australia.) He meets a variety of Australians: truckies, anti-environmental loggers and tourists, racists, Aborigines in beat-up "utes" (utility vehicles, like pickup trucks), and professional wanderers. He hunkers down in a ditch during a cyclone, wonders at the oddities of Australian cartography ("rivers" and "lakes" are plentiful in name, but dry as dust in reality), and watches as his chauffeurs down dozens of beers per hour. It seems that the Outback, for all its barren aridity, is dotted with pubs. Horwitz is an excellent writer. He descibes the heat and the flies with great detail, finds poingnacy in meeting one of the only other Jews in Broome at Passover, and draws humor from the most aggrieving situations, such as the publican who hates serving food or letting rooms. This book is a page-turner, but more than that, it introduces a great part of Australian culture with wit and skill. Great reading.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Equal in quality yet different than Bryson, Janv. 7 2004
This book makes an excellent companion to Bill Bryson's 'In a Sunburned Country.' As Horowitz spent much of his time hitchhiking through Australia (as opposed to Bryson's quick train and driving strategy), he met many more strange characters than Bryson, and his descriptions of the locals are spot-on and often laugh-out-loud funny. His road trip with four aboriginals in a dilapidated pickup truck is of special note.

My only criticism of the book is that I am not a particular fan of present tense travel writing ('I dash up the hill, the horde of angry kangaroos hopping in thundering unison behind me' -- not a real quote), in which this book is written. It's a minor gripe, however; Horowitz is a former correspondent of the Wall Street Journal and an excellent storyteller. Highly recommended!

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Seen better on the subject, Nov. 6 2003
I agree with some of the other reviewers regarding Horwitz's other works. He has certainly served up much better fare with his other works.

The story is very formulaic and lacks the cooky characters you'd think you might encounter on a journey like this. Don't get me wrong, there are a few odd and interesting people we meet here and there, but much of the book feels rushed. Get picked up, drive X amount of miles, get dropped off, wait in the sun, till get picked up and repeat cycle.

There are some classic Horwitz one liners and oberservations but I'm not sure it warrants reading this book. He has a car accident in the middle of his journey, ironically as he's driving himself not hitchhiking, and I wonder if this affected the whole story arc. That's what was lacking here; a sort of purpose to the whole thing.

"Confederates in the Attic" for instance is a brilliant mix of history and social studies. They are both handled in A+ fashion. With "One for the Road," there is some history and even less social study. The history that is discussed is handled quite well as I learned many things. The whole CIA/Alice Springs connection is very interesting. The description of the towns and various climates, terrain, and settings he comes across is also handled very well. It is probably the best feature of the book. But, the one thing missing is the people. His interaction with people was not written about very well and in many cases felt forced (i.e. hunting down another Jew so he could celebrate Passover). Simply put, nothing really interesting happens.

It's okay Tony, I forgive you. You've gotten to be a much better writer : )

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Young Horwitz
Having greatly enjoyed "Confederates in the Attic" and "Blue Latitudes," as well as "Baghdad Without A Map", I am a Horwitz fan. Read more
Publié le Sep 16 2003 par Wayne A. Smith

5.0étoiles sur 5 Find out what Australia is about
The best kind of book - a non-fiction page turner. Horwitz writes about his slow grinding hitchhiking tour through the expanse and heat of the Australian outback. Read more
Publié le Mars 19 2003 par Bruce Lawrence

3.0étoiles sur 5 Good but not Horwitz' best
After reading all Hortwitz' books, I can say that his first is far from his best. Frankly, the Australian outback doesn't offer him enough to go on. Read more
Publié le Janv. 4 2003 par Ken Zirkel

5.0étoiles sur 5 "You may find yourself . . . "
There are some constraints to Australian road travel - the chief one being that the cities, hence, the roads, hug the coasts. Read more
Publié le Déc 2 2002 par Stephen A. Haines

4.0étoiles sur 5 One of Many
This is the fourth travel narrative I've read about Australia. It is hard to compare them with each other, because each has a different focus and they travel by different means... Read more
Publié le Sep 13 2002 par choiceweb0pen0

3.0étoiles sur 5 Interesting, but have read better
This was an interesting book, but nowhere near as good as the reviews I've read here seemed to indicate. Read more
Publié le Juil 30 2001 par bspuhler

4.0étoiles sur 5 The Real "Sunburnt" Country
Tony Horwitz, with an Australian bride is residing in Sydney, and thoroughly fed up with the sameness of city life, embarks upon a hitchhikerï¿s tour of the Outback. Read more
Publié le Juil 30 2001 par sweetmolly

4.0étoiles sur 5 Hitch-hiking in Australia
This was my second Horwitz book. I had quite high expectations after "Confederates in the Attic" and I was generally satisfied with this one (actually one of his first... Read more
Publié le Mai 13 2001 par S. Brockhaus

5.0étoiles sur 5 A backpack and a sense of adventure
Tony Horwitz is fast becoming my one of my favorite authors. I loved "Confederates in the Attic" and "Baghdad Without a Map" and looked forward to reading... Read more
Publié le Aoû 16 2000 par Linda Linguvic

5.0étoiles sur 5 on the road again with Horwitz
No book by Horwitz can be categorized easily. Rather than a "travel" book, it reads more like an existential narrative in which the author immerses himself in the... Read more
Publié le Fév 8 2000 par Jonathan C. Owen

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