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vagabond
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Into the Wild
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- McCandless had told Westerberg that his destination was Saco Hot Springs, 240 miles to the east on U.S. Highway 2, a place he'd heard about from some "rubber tramps" (i.e., vagabonds who owned a vehicle; as distinguished from "leather tramps," who lacked personal transportation and were thus forced to hitchhike or walk).†
p. 17.4
- McCandless tramped around the West for the next two months, spellbound by the scale and power of the landscape, thrilled by minor brushes with the law, savoring the intermittent company of other vagabonds he met along the way.†
p. 29.9 *
- After working there eleven days with six other vagabonds, it became clear to McCandless that Ernie had no intention of ever paying him, so he stole a red ten-speed bicycle from the clutter in the yard, pedaled into Chico, and ditched the bike in a mall parking lot.†
p. 30.2
- Come November, as the weather turns cold across the rest of the country, some five thousand snowbirds and drifters and sundry vagabonds congregate in this otherworldly setting to live on the cheap under the sun.†
p. 43.5
- Astoundingly, the eighty-one-year-old man took the brash twenty-four-year-old vagabonds advice to heart.†
p. 58.5
- Reading this correspondence (collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty), one is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost incendiary passion for the country through which he walked.†
p. 91.2
- It can be interpreted to mean that he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community.†
p. 189.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(vagabond) a person who wanders from town to town with no fixed home or job
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)