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Hunter S. Thompson's semi-autobiographical first novel is the story of a frustrated young writer who embarks on a drunken, carousing journey through the boomtowns of Puerto Rico in the 1950s.

Begun in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The autobiographical hero, a young writer dreaming of Hemingway but stuck in a dead-end newspaper job, embarks on a carousing, hell-raising journey through the tropics. Along the way, he comes between a wi...

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Explores how tradition and modernity coexist in regional Japan, arguing that the rural/urban dichotomy is outmoded for understanding this contemporary society.

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Die halb-biografische Geschichte des Journalisten Hunter S. Thompson (Bill Murray) und seines Anwaltes Lazlo (Peter Boyle) ... Lazlo verdient das wirklich große Geld mit Waffenschmuggel, und Hunter hat eine ... sagen wir mal sehr eigenwillige Art, an Informationen für seine Reportagen zu kommen. Hauptsache, er hat seinen Bourbon, aber auch andere Drogen sind ihm jederzeit willkommen.

In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event...

This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rural, traditional and modern, and industrial and agricultural to define their existence and the experience of living in contemporary Japanese society. The book focuses on the Tohoku (Northeast) region, which many Japanese consider rural, agrarian, undeveloped economically, and the epitome of the traditional way...

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