Aus einer Buchrezension des Guardian: „Ultimately, one is left with the sad ruminations of Rudy, the Barnstaple bus driver, forced out of business by the Iranian revolution: „All the guys stopped driving then,“ he says. „George on Budget Bus, Ugly Bob from Chattanooga who had the Volvo. It broke my heart having to stop.“ Ugly Bob with the Volvo, wherever you are – this one’s for you.„
Autor: Maclean, Rory
Titel: Magic Bus
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007 (Alter 10 Jahre)
Genre: Travel
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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