Magic Bus

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ISBN9780141015958
AuthorsRory MacLean
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
FormatPaperback
Number of pages304
Weight (kg)0.210
Publishing Date05/07/2007
Price (excl. tax)€13.11
Tax€0.79
Price (incl. tax)€13.90
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Product Description

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.