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Ancient Gonzo Wisdom by Hunter S. Thompson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of "Playboy", "The Paris Review", "Esquire", and elsewhere. Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the mo ...Show more
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom by Hunter S. Thompson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the Paris Review, Esquire, in various lectures, and in television appearances, many in print ...Show more
Better Than Sex by Hunter S. Thompson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants' Philadelphia Inquirer Since his blazing 1972 opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 by Hunter S. Thompson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Fear and Loathing Letters Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to THE PROUD HIGHWAY. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson; Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Fear and Loathing Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sk ...Show more
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the legendary journalist and creator of "Gonzo" journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern's 1972 presidential election. Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 remains a cornerstone of American political ...Show more
Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
'Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like 'certain death' and 'total failure' and the idea of 'a doomed generation'. But not me. I am comfortable with these themes'. Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", has been writing a week ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
$27.95 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear, so terrible was their reputation. But how much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality? Only one man could discover the truth about these latter-day barbarians; ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'In Sep ...Show more
Hell's Angels (Modern Classic) by Hunter S. Thompson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
The Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Bi ...Show more