The Hippie Trail - A History

Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.

Sommario

Introduction: beginning the trail
1 Drugs and the trail
2 Sex and love on the road
3 The hippie as tourist
4 The hippie as pilgrim
5 Representing the trail: Hideous Kinky and beyond
Epilogue: ending the journey
Index

Info autore

Dr Sharif Gemie is a historian of modern Europe. He has mainly researched on minority peoples, including refugees, Muslims in Europe, Bretons and Galicians

Dr Brian Ireland is a modern American historian. He has written about such diverse topics as the US military in Hawaii, commemoration and remembrance, travelogues and road movies, rock music, comic books, television, and science fiction literature

Riassunto

Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sharif Gemie, Sharif (Professor of Modern and Contemporar Gemie, Sharif (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History) Gemie, Gemie Sharif, Brian Ireland, Ireland Brian
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781526114624
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1462-4
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Oral History, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Asia, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Travel & holiday, c 1960 to c 1970, Social and cultural history, Asian History, c 1970 to c 1980, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General