A Journey West on Route 66

Winner of the John Morgan Award

"I picked the Tumbleweed up in Cimarron County. It had been caught in the rusting wires of a steer fence which fringed the road.The fence aping a gill net which trapped shoals of wandering Tumbleweeds as they traversed the flat tablelands." I hung it from the suit hook in the back of the Honda. It seemed happy. Content to be on the move again and whirred with a faint whisper as it conspired with the wind when I wound the window down."

"The first casino was fun. Martha was pulled in by the offer of a free mug. A notice above the counter boasted that over six million people had been mugged in Vegas"

"Freeways is Lewis's story of Route 66. It delves in and out of the history of the road, the history of migration and John Steinbeck. It is made valuable to socialists by the story of Mexican labour getting organised, sos and Proposition 187." Socialist Review

"dense with social, historical, political and economic detail. He writes with passion, accelerating into frenzy." New Welsh Review

"evokes a vivid picture of the promised road to prosperity, bringing to life the sweat, toil and seediness along the way." South Wales Echo

"An entertaining travelogue about the experiences of the road." Geographical

"a prose that is constantly moving, reflecting the flux of travel and the continual ticking over of ideas and observations. His sincerity is refreshing; his passion for travel and the inevitable self-exploration that comes with it is intoxicating." Buzz

"The comparison with Steinbeck is a fitting one. Freeways is much more, this is an other-worldly story, a story of people constantly on the move in a moving country." The Big Issue " 'On the Road' surfaces here, and Steinbeck himself, ...Davies writes well, often in a Hemingway staccato...A fine line writer." Planet

"The whole story is both fascinating and compelling as it mixes thriller and mystery, murder and love, in a tangled web of intrigue." Merthyr Express

"Davies's prose is unhurried....savour the wry, downbeat quality of his humour and the gentle humanity which suffuses the book." Mario Basini, Western Mail

"A well-written road tale." Wanderlust