Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Travel & Geography

Authors: Tickner Edwardes In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

Dedicatory Epistle
Chapter I - The Syren City
Chapter II - The Motor Man
Chapter III - The First Step Eastward
Chapter IV - The Culmstock Cat
Chapter V - ''The Blue-Eyed Maid''
Chapter VI - The Harmonious Ragman
Chapter VII - A Family Breakfast
Chapter VIII - Sunday Afternoon
Chapter IX - The Charm of Wincanton
Chapter X - The Art of Asking the Way
Chapter XI - Recantation
Chapter XII - Gloaming
Chapter XIII - Waking in the Hay
Chapter XIV - Porton
Chapter XV - Divided Ways
Chapter XVI - The Led Horse
Chapter XVII - A Start in the Cold
Chapter XVIII - At Littlecott Inn
Chapter XIX - Sunday Morning in Winchester
Chapter XX - The Amenities of Coal-Heaving
Chapter XXI - An Eloquent Signpost
Chapter XXII - A Song Before Sunrise
Chapter XXIII - ''Heigh-Ho! For the Wind and Rain!''
Chapter XXIV - The Last Lift Home

Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear of the main roads, and, with two exceptions, the great towns; seeking out the least frequented lanes and by-paths. I covered the whole two-hundred-mile stretch of the way, with camera and pack at surprisingly little expense, by means of lifts taken in any chance vehicle that might be faring in my direction. My plan consisted in waiting by the roadside, or strolling gently onward until something on wheels, it mattered not what, overtook me. And thus by fits and starts - slow joltings in lumbering farm-waggons, steady crawls in brewers’ drays, quiet hours on the tail-boards of pantechnicons and a momentous evening in a missionary van - I found myself, after many days of travel, at my journey’s end in drowsy Arundel and a great and all but resistless longing to turn about there and then, and do the journey all over again. (From: Lift-Luck on Southern Roads) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This book is considered to be one of the very first to document the concept of hitchhiking as a method of travelling to your destination by asking to ride in various stranger’s vehicles for different sections of your journey. So then, why not join Mr Edwardes and me on this intriguing and fascinating trip as we go ‘off the beaten track’ and hitchhike our way through a magnificent part of Southern England at the turn of the last century? - Summary by Steve C