The Hippie Trail: A History

Sharif Gemie; Brian Ireland

The Hippie Trail: A History

Sharif Gemie, Brian Ireland

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Abstract

This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other 'points east' in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear, simple style, it provides detailed analysis of the motivations and the experiences of hundreds of thousands of hippies who travelled eastwards. The Hippie Trail is structured around four key debates: were the travellers simply motivated by a search for drugs? Did they encounter love or sexual freedom on the road? Were they basically just tourists? Did they resemble pilgrims? The book also considers how the travellers have been represented in films, novels and autobiographical accounts.

Original language	English
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Number of pages	264
ISBN (Print)	978-1526114624
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2017

Keywords

Hippie Trail
hippy trail
counterculture of the 1960s
1960s
Oral history
Social and cultural history

6 Article
3 Chapter
1 Book

Raga Rock: Popular Music and the Turn to the East in the 1960s
Ireland, B. & Gemie, S., 9 Jun 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of American Studies. p. 1-38
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The Consul and the Beatnik: The Establishment, Youth Culture and the Beginnings of the Hippy Trail (1966—68)
Ireland, B. & Gemie, S., 1 Sept 2017, In: Twentieth Century British History. 3, 1, p. 440-464 25 p., 3052190.
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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in Historical Context
Ireland, B., 30 Nov 2017, Critical Insights: Lord of the Flies. United States: Salem Press, (Critical Insights series).
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From Kerouac to the Hippy Trail: Some Notes on the Attraction of On the Road to British Hippies
Ireland, B. & Gemie, S., 3 Mar 2015, In: Studies in Travel Writing. 19, 1, p. 66-82
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The Hippy Trail
Ireland, B. & Gemie, S., 2015, The Sixties: A worldwide happening.
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Raga Rock: Popular Music and the Turn to the East in the 1960s

The Consul and the Beatnik: The Establishment, Youth Culture and the Beginnings of the Hippy Trail (1966—68)

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in Historical Context

From Kerouac to the Hippy Trail: Some Notes on the Attraction of On the Road to British Hippies

The Hippy Trail

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