Strange Bewildering Time Audiobook by Mark Abley
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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Strange Bewildering Time Subtitle: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail Categories: Biography Author: Mark Abley Narrator: Mark Abley Publisher: Anansi Audio Release date: 06-12-2023 Language: English Summary: 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 when the Shah of Iran still reigned supreme, Afghanistan lay at peace, and city streets from Turkey to India teemed with unrest. Within a year, many of the places he visited would become inaccessible to foreign travellers. Drawing from the tattered notebooks he filled as a youthful wanderer, Abley brings his kaleidoscope of experiences back to life with vivid detail: dancing in a Turkish disco, clambering across a glacier in Kashmir, travelling by train among Baluchi tribesmen who smuggled kitchen appliances over international borders. He also reflects on the impact of the Hippie Trail and the illusions of those who journeyed along it. #ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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