Kerouacian map for you -- a map for our times.

A couple weeks ago, Colin Marshall highlighted for you Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On the Road . Now we have anotherGregor Weichbrodt, a German college student, took all of the geographic stops mentioned in On the Road , plugged them into Google Maps, and ended up with a 45-page manual of driving directions, divided into chapters paralleling those of Kerouac's original book. You can read the manual -- On the Road for 17,527 Miles-- as a free ebook. Just click the image above to view it online ( or click here ). Likewise, you can purchase a print copy on Lulu and perhaps make it the basis for your own road trip. Wondering how long such a trip might take? Google Maps indicates that Kerouac's journey covered some 17,527 miles and theoretically took some 272 hours.

Note: You can find lectures (1 + 2) discussing the importance of On the Road in Yale’s course, The American Novel Since 1945. It appears in the Literature section of our collection, 1,500 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.

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