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Theroux, Louis.
The call of the weird : travels in American subcultures / Louis Theroux. -- 1st Da Capo Press ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2005.
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81503-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
eBook ISBN:9780786731893
ISBN-10: 0-306-81503-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. United States--Description and travel. 2. Theroux, Louis---Travel---United States. 3. United States--Social life and customs--1971- 4. Subculture--United States. 5. Eccentrics and eccentricities- United States--Biography. 6. United States--Biography. 7. National characteristics, American. 8. United States--Civilization--1970- I. Title.
E169.Z83T48 2007
306'.10973090511--dc22

2006036417

First Da Capo Press edition 2007
First published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan

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