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Magic Bus
  • Published: 20 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141015958
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00
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Magic Bus

On The Hippie Trail From Istanbul To India

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A captivating journey along the 'hippie trail' in search of the enchanting idealism of the 1960s and the gripping reality of the present

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope.

Since the Summer of Love, the countries that offered so much to these dreamers have confronted the full force of modernity and transformed from worlds of Western fantasy to political minefields.

Through a landscape of breathtaking beauty Rory MacLean retraces the path of the once well-worn 'hippie trail' from Turkey to Iran, Afghanistan to Pakistan, India to Nepal, meeting trail veterans and locals on his way, and relives wide-eyed adventures as he witnesses a world of extraordinary and terrifying transformation.
  • Published: 20 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141015958
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Rory MacLean

Rory MacLean is the author of more than a dozen books including Stalin's Nose, Under the Dragon and Geography of Heaven: Travels to the Hereafter. He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. John le Carré called him 'surely the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time'. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the curator of the annual Sherborne Travel Writing Festival, he divides his time between the UK, Berlin and Sicily.
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Praise for Magic Bus

A disturbing, gripping and intensely passionate story

Esther Freud

Utterly absorbing; if you read only one travel book this year, this should be it

Alexander Frater, author of, Chasing the Monsoon

A disturbing, gripping and intensely passionate story

Esther Freud

Rory MacLean is one of the most strikingly original and talented travel writers of his generation

Katie Hickman, author of, Courtesans