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Magic Bus

On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
Magic Bus

Author(s) : Maclean, Rory
Publishers Price : £9.99
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ISBN : 0141015950
EAN : 9780141015958
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 292
Size : 198 x 130mm
Publisher : Viking
Published : 2006
Category : East-West
Category 2 : Travel: Adventure/Exploration
Synopsis:
New paperback edition. In the sixties and seventies hundreds of thousands of young Westerners took off for India, blazing the "hippie trail" from Istanbul to Kathmandu. On foot and by bus, Maclean retraces their wide-eyed adventures along the route reopened for the first time in a generation and travels across a region that has experienced extraordinary and turbulent changes since that summer of love. Along the way he reveals how profoundly the trail transformed travellers' lives and the countries they traversed, unleashing forces that changed for ever the way we travel the world.

"Maclean refers to the sixties travellers who made the overland journey by bus to India as Intrepids, but he is the intrepid one. Undaunted and unprejudiced, he follows in their footsteps and brings us some painful truths about the countries - Afghanistan and Iran in particular - that have disappeared behind news headlines. A disturbing, gripping and intensely passionate story." Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky.

"Magic Bus could have ended up a mere nostalgia trip. Instead, Rory MacLean takes us through the shattered remains of Shangri La and leaves us sombre, but enlightened." Tim Mackintosh-Smith.

"Rory MacLean is one of the most strikingly original and talented travel writers of his generation." Katie Hickman.

"Utterly absorbing; if you read only one travel book this year, this should be it." Alexander Frater, author of Chasing the Monsoon.

"A magic journey - lyrical, sympathetic but gently sceptical - perfectly suits MacLean's many gifts. He resurrects the hippie trail in all its zany idealism." Colin Thubron.
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