Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail

by Mark Abley

Book Overview

A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.
In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western bohemians and vagabonds. It was a time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487009666
• ISBN13: 9781487009663
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"