The Trail (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Thomas Wide | knygos.lt

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This is the story of how a generation travelled East on the Psychedelic Silk Road - and in doing so, transformed the West. They drove VWs, got on buses and into camper vans, followed the hippie trail from London through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India to Nepal, and came home carrying what they'd found. Yoga and mindfulness, the Apple computer and Lonely Planet guidebook, organic food and the soy milk in your coffee: so much of modern life arrived by this route. These countercultural travellers thought they were fleeing the modern world. In fact, they were the shock troops of globalization.
Tracking down travellers from California to Kathmandu, Montreal to Macau to Melbourne to Maui - and talking to those who interacted with them, from Afghan coat-makers and Turkish musicians to Nepali labourers and Thai cannabis farmers - Thomas Wide finds far more than footloose hippies spouting peace and love. He uncovers a tangled history of cultural theft and cultural openness, spiritual insight and spiritual fraud, liberation and commerce: carried by the same people, along the same trail.