Bøger af Jason Phillips

Barely surviving the extreme dementedness of Freekuency Festival 2012, Jason (Flapsandwich) bids farewell to his fellow Sicknote band members and embarks on an epic, totally unprepared pilgrimage along the Camino Portugués, from Porto to Santiago (240km of rugged terrain and extremes of weather that no TK Maxx raincoat or Poundland shades were ever meant to endure). This salutary change of scene soon produces dementedness all of its own, and after memorable encounters with rabid dogs, random perverts, and religious fanatics, not to mention the untimely demise of his staunch traveling companion Smaragda the Laptop, the temptation to quit raises its ugly head more than once. However, the Chav Punk Hobbit is not alone in his adventure. Aided and encouraged by a deranged assortment of fellow pilgrims, blues musicians, mad theologians, and ambulatory beards, he finds within him the determination to embrace the moment and pursue his quest beyond Santiago, and right to the End of the World. The road goes ever on, or at least far enough to make the Chav Punk Hobbit regret trusting in that pair of trainers he blagged off Stevie G...

Highlights the diverse ways in which beliefs about the end times influenced nineteenth-century American lives, including reform culture, the search for meaning amid the trials of war, and the social transformation wrought by emancipation.

Explains how religious dogma and perceptions of Union barbarity and ineptitude affirmed in the Confederate soldiers a view of an indomitable South.