A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is Graham Coster's account of the months he spent riding the highways with long-haul truckers - the men who drive diesel rigs thousands of miles at a stretch and call their sleeper cabs home. In Europe, Coster joins an English driver who is bringing a load of ice cream and Guinness from England to Russia; their journey - the long waits at border crossings, the layover at an imitation English pub in Moscow - is a front-seat view of the new Europe. In the United States, Coster rides with a series of colorful, entrepreneurial drivers who see themselves as late-twentieth-century cowboys, bound only by the rules of the road and the unwritten code of the trucking fraternity. As they cross the vast expanses of the Midwest, covering hundreds of miles a day, he finds that the American mythology of the open road is as seductive as ever.