The Hippie Trail: After Europe, Turn Left

"In 1977, a naive twenty-year-old American took a break from his university studies to undertake an epic 9,000-mile overland journey from Munich to Kathmandu. With his camera and his journal, he recorded his wanderings and musings with candour and humour, travelling through cities and countries that are now inaccessible and too dangerous for the modern backpacking tourist. A spiritual successor to both Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", The Hippie Trail's voyage of self-discovery and casual nonchalance is illustrated with iconic reflections of the world around Kreamer, taken on 35-mm slides and film. The search for universal truth and the meaning of life tramps alongside the author through exotic and war-torn lands, revealing a seemingly lost era of more freedom, openness, tolerance, and promise."--Back cover.