Jonathan Purkis

Jonathan Purkis is an independent academic, tutor and musician. He grew up in Hull, studied and later taught sociology in several English universities. He has published many works on environmental protest and anarchism and has been collecting information on hitchhiking almost from the day he first stuck his thumb out in 1982. (Since then he has clocked up 40,198 miles and had lifts from 1309 strangers, but does not consider himself officially 'retired'!).