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| + | Various material on hitchhiking, all kinds of special hitchhiking media, media connected with hitchhiking, stuff on hitchiking in other media, ..: |
| − | The page '''Multimedia''' refers to all sorts of media connected with hitchhiking.
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| | + | * [[Media#Books|Books]] |
| | + | * [[Hitchhiking in movies|Movies]] |
| | + | * [[Media#News articles|News media articles]] |
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| | + | * [[Blogging_Hitchhikers|Blogs of hitchhikers]] |
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| − | ==Websites==
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| − | * '''[http://www.traveloblog.com traveloblog.com]''' is a community site where many hitchhikers store their travel blogs. The most known of them is Ludovic Hubler - French hitchhiker who finished his 5 year travel around the world utilizing various form of hitchhiking.
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| − | * '''Digihitch''' is a complete web portal devoted to hitchhiking, with thousands of members around the world and new, original content every day. The site receives over 40,000 visitors each month. [http://www.digihitch.com Digihitch.com] has many different areas of information to: showcase new stuff, help travelers prepare for a trip, or to allow registered members to share stories and articles.
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| − | * [http://www.digihitch.com/forums.html Great Campfire Forums] - Discussion forums with thousands of topics on everything related to hitchhiking, including forums on road culture and regional travel. People new to hitchhiking can get help in the ''Sparkies'' forum.
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| − | * [http://www.digihitch.com/world/ Digihitch World] - Map-based navigation of worldwide hitchhiking resources. Click on a country or sub-region to view its stories, links and discussion groups. Members can also vote for each region based on 5 key points (including affordability, safety and 'hitchhikability')
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| − | * [http://www.digihitch.com/encyclopedia.html Encyclopedia of Road Sub-Culture] - Includes hundreds of biographies, song lyrics, travel terms and movies. Favorites include our ''Hitchhiking in the Movies'' section- listing all movies that have hitchhiking- and ''Celebrity Sub-culture'', with a listing of actors, musicians and other notables who have been on the road.-->
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| − | * '''[http://www.liftershalte.info Liftershalte.info]''' is a world map where everyone can mark hitching spots.
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| − | * The [http://www.hitchbase.com/index.php?LANG=eng Hitchbase], is a database where hitchhikers can seek for good places to hitchhike. Most entries are in English, but some entries are written in German. Updating information is not very easy, but for tips in hitching [[Finland]] it's unbeatable.
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| − | * '''[http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/hitch_hiking Suite 101]''' is a sort of on-line magazine which ran a monthly hitchhiking column from October 1996 to February 2003. The columnist, [http://bernd.wechner.info Bernd Wechner], ceased writing for Suite 101 in 2003 and the archive at Suite 101 itself has fallen into an embarrasing state of disrepair since. Bernd Wechner has however archived all the articles written for that column on [http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/ his own site] and [http://www.digihitch.com/featured_salman.html Morgan Salman Strub] has archived them on digihitch along with a wealth of other material from many contributors.
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| − | * [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kjokisal/liftaus/ Hitchhikers' guide to Europe] is a website by Kirsi Jokisalo with tips about hitchhiking in several European countries.
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| − | * [http://hitch-hiking.org www.hitch-hiking.org] is a great site in English and German language with lots of information about hitchhiking in general, legal issues and dozens of funny anecdotes about hitching.
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| − | * [http://www.franknature.nl/hitchhike/hitchhike.htm Hitchhiking in the Netherlands] (Ad-Hoc-Carpooling), a nice website by Frank Verhart
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| − | * '''[http://www.liftari.org Liftari.org]''' is a community webpage for [[Finland|Finnish]] hitchhikers. It's a community blog started in early 2004, containing tips and stories about hitchhiking. The site is mostly in [[finland#Language | Finnish]], but foreigners coming to [[hitchhiking | hitchhike]] in [[Finland]] can post questions on the forum.
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| − | * [http://deu.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Tramp-Ratgeberin Hitchhike info on Anarchopedia], '''wiki''' and available under the GNU Free Documentation License (which is compatible with this wiki).
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| − | * [http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com Abgefahren e.V. - Deutsche AutoStop Gesellschaft], German Autostop Society with Meetings, Ideas,...
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| − | * [http://www.hike.ru hike.ru], with some information [http://hike.ru/?newlang=eng in English]
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| − | * [http://www.autostopargentina.com.ar AutostopArgentina] is a community page for [[Argentina]] and South American hitchhikers. There's lots of data about [[Argentina]], HOWTO's, and a forum with about 1200 registered members.
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| − | * '''Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe''' by Ken Welsh: outdated but contains great information for Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the "Communist countries." Was the inspiration for the title of Douglas Adams' ''Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. In English.
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| − | * '''No Such Thing as a Free Ride?''' A Collection of Hitchers' Tales. Compiled by Simon and Tom Sykes (Great Britain: Cassell Illustrated, 2005). A 192 pg. compilation of hitch-hiking lore and experience, contributed by more than a hundred, from both sides of the experience, mainly British. A great sampling. In English.
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| − | * '''Derelict Days... Sixty years on the Roadside Path to Enlightenment''' by [[Irv Thomas]]. (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004). Personal tales from across a 60-year span of American (and some European) hitch-hiking, in a 226-page text. Mostly written at the time of each adventure, these highlight the consciousness-raising aspect of the experience. Included is a newspaper account of the earliest American hitch-hiker on record (1916). In English.
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| − | * '''The Hitchhiking Grandmother''' by Grace Small, as told to Ruth Barton Davis (Forest Grove, OR: Pilgrim Way Press, 1990). Quite remarkable life story of a 46-year old woman who took up hitch-hiking in 1941, indulging her adventurous spirit thusly for some 25 years, both in the US and Europe. The 200-page book is cheaply obtainable on bookfinder.com. In English.
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| − | * '''Hitching - tales from the byways and superhighways''', by Kirsty Brooks. A collection of stories by hitchhikers, mostly Australians, hitching in Australia, the US, Europe and some random places. Some interesting stories. In English.
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| − | * In Russian there are a lot of books about hitchhiking, ''Praktika Volnyh Puteshestvyi'' by Anton Krotov being the most famous and according to many essential reading material for hitchhiking in [[Russia]] - if you read Russian that is.
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| − | * [http://www.autostop.lt/faq/books.html List of books at autostop.lt]
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| − | * [http://www.acrobatoftheroad.blogspot.com/ Vagabond in the axis of evil], a book by Juan Pablo Villarino about hitchhiking in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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| − | ==News Media==
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| − | Some links to '''hitchhiking in the news media'''. See [http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=hitchhiking&btnG=Search+News&num=100 Google News] for some current news items.
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| − | * [http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2006_264/news/12261-1.html Hitchhiking My Way Around Cuba]: Cubans are required to pick up hitchhikers, August 31, 2006
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| − | * [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6576347/ What killed hitchhiking?], date unknown
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| − | * [http://www.pe.com/business/local/stories/PE_Biz_D_paintings28.2fac574.html High-tech pioneers go hitchhiking across America], August 27, 2006
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| − | * [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6231269 Hitchhiking All 50 States], October 10, 2006
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| − | * [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/28/content_5014818.htm Pros and cons for paid hitchhiking], no more "paid hitchhiking" in Nanjing
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| − | * [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/09/25/2003329079 Student hitches his way around nation to prove it's friendly], September 25, 2006 <!-- http://english.www.gov.tw/TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?categid=10&recordid=99832 -->
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| − | * [http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=A&Id=2010 Hitchhiking against poverty], from [[Riga]] to [[Strasbourg]], September 8, 2006.
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| − | * [http://www.russia-ic.com/travel/travelling/261/ Hitchhiking travel in Russia], October 5, 2006.
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