Dirty Kids - Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads

A gritty, thrilling portrait of America's underground traveling community.

About the author

Chris Urquhart's writing has appeared in Adbusters, COLORS, Maisonneuve, the Santiago Times, and Esquire Russia. Chris lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Kitra Cahanaworks as a documentary photographer and videographer. She has chronicled the daily lives of teens at a Texas high school, told the story of a Venezuelan cult, and followed a group of nomadic youth across the U.S.

Micah White is the lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. Named by Esquire as one of the most influential young thinkers of today, Micah is the author of The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution.

Summary

Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads. Dirty, dreadlocked, and digging in dumpsters, homeless teen travellers live a life of wild, unfettered freedom in cities and towns around the world. At age 22, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads for a magazine feature. Captivated, she followed them for three more years. In honest prose interspersed with photographs portraying the grimy beauty of nomadic life, 'Dirty Kids' tells the story of how Urquhart lived alongside runaways, crust-punks, and dropouts, hippies, Deadheads, and Rainbows in an attempt to belong in their world.

Product details

• Authors: Urquhart, Chris Urquhart
• Assisted by: Kitra Cahana (Photographs), White Micah (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781771643047
• ISBN: 978-1-77164-304-7
• Illustrations: B&W photographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Travel > Travel guides; USA, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Adventure holidays, Travel & holiday guides, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TRAVEL / United States / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Travel guides: adventure holidays, Travel and holiday guides