Magic Bus
Rory Maclean
  • 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's eight non-fiction books include the UK bestsellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon. During his research journeys he walked through the newly-opened Berlin Wall and met Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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