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The Beats: Special Offer Titles

We have a growing selection of titles either by or about the Beats or Beat Generation available at special offer prices as shown in this promotion.

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	Canoeing Up Cabarga Creek
	Buddhist Poems 1955-1986
	Whalen, Philip
	Wisdom Price £3.60 (save 60%)
	By the abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco, this is a retrospective collection of Buddhist poetry written over a thirty year...
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	First Thought, Best Thought [4 CD Set Sale Edition]
	Ginsberg, Allen and Anne Waldman, Diane Di Prima, and William S Burroughs
	Wisdom Price £5.80 (save 80%)
	Sale edition. The first landmark release from Naropa...
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	Blue Hand [Sale Hardback Edition]
	The Beats in India
	Baker, Deborah
	Wisdom Price £3.99 (save 80%)
	Sale edition. In 1961, Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, India, where he planned to meet up with poets Gary Snyder and Joanne...
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	Passage Through India [Sale Edition]
	An Expanded and Illustrated Edition
	Snyder, Gary
	Wisdom Price £5.40 (save 55%)
	Sale paperback edition. In 1962, Gary Snyder, with his wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his...
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	Kerouac [Video]
	Antonelli, John and Kerouac, Jack and Coyote, Peter
	Wisdom Price £3.30 (save 85%)
	Kerouac's life is examined through rare footage, with Steve Allen and William Buckley, interviews with his contemporaries including Allen Ginsberg, and...
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	Typewriter is Holy [Sale Edition]
	The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
	Morgan, Bill
	Wisdom Price £5.00 (save 80%)
	Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century...
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	Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds [Video]
	The Beats at Naropa Institute
	Allione, Constanzo and Ginsberg, Allen
	Wisdom Price £3.30 (save 85%)
	A joyous reunion of beat poets at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute...
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	I Celebrate Myself [Sale Edition]
	The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
	Morgan, Bill
	Wisdom Price £5.00 (save 75%)
	An extensive biography of Allen Ginsberg, one of America's most famous poets, drawing on the author's deep knowledge...
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	Chronicles [Sale Edition]
	Dylan, Bob
	Wisdom Price £2.40 (save 70%)
	A superb and illuminating memoir by Bob Dylan, which is as inspired , impulsive and eccentric as Dylan's greatest music. "The most extraordinary intimate autobiography by a...
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	Paul Bowles in Morocco [Video]
	Conklyn, Gary
	Wisdom Price £4.40 (save 80%)
	Filmed at home in Tangier, where he was visited for inspiration by many literary giants such as Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac, the author of "Sheltering Sky"...
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	Tarantula [Sale Edition]
	Dylan, Bob
	Wisdom Price £2.80 (save 65%)
	Bob Dylan's only fictional book, Tarantula was written in 1966 during the creative peak that produced Blonde on Blonde. Reminiscent of Dylan's best songs, it is essential reading...
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	Soft Machine [Sale Edition]
	Burroughs, William S
	Wisdom Price £3.90 (save 61%)
	Sale edition. Hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotics agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the...
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	Book of Martyrdom and Artifice [Sale Edition]
	First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
	Ginsberg, Allen and edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
	Wisdom Price £5.60 (save 65%)
	The earliest journals and poems of...
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	Why Kerouac Matters
	The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
	Leland, John
	Wisdom Price £4.18 (save 78%)
	Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to grab a backpack and hit the...
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	Junky [Sale Edition]
	Burroughs, William S
	Wisdom Price £3.15 (save 65%)
	Sale edition. Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental...
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	Letters of Allen Ginsberg [Sale Edition]
	Ginsberg, Allen and edited by Bill Morgan
	Wisdom Price £6.00 (save 70%)
	A marvelous collection of revealing letters by the famous Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, including letters to Jack Kerouac,...
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	Beat Book [Shambhala Sale Edition]
	Writings from the Beat Generation
	Waldman, Anne
	Wisdom Price £5.28 (save 68%)
	Sale edition. The Beat poets, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Boroughs, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael...
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	Beatific Soul
	Jack Kerouac on the Road
	Gewitz, Isaac
	Wisdom Price £6.25 (save 75%)
	Drawing on material never before seen by the general public, this book traces Kerouac's evolution as a writer and his spiritual passage from Christianity to Buddhism and back...
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	Ticket That Exploded [Sale Edition]
	Burroughs, William S
	Wisdom Price £3.20 (save 68%)
	Sale edition. Part of Burrough's classic "Cut-Up Trilogy", this is a completely original work of science fiction and a compelling political and moral...
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	Jack Kerouac's American Journey [Sale Edition]
	The Real Life Odyssey of "On the Road"
	Maher, Paul
	Wisdom Price £4.80 (save 60%)
	The famous book On the Road by Jack Kerouac (which has now been made into a movie) is one of the...
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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 items sorted by Popularity