Road to Katmandu

by Marnham, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781845110178
• ISBN10: 184511017X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-23
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Summary

This is a travel classic--the story of Patrick Marnham's pilgrimage from Turkey to Nepal in 1968. He traveled over three thousand miles, passing through Ankara to Ararat, Tehran and Mashad, Herat, Kandahar and Kabul, Peshawar, Lahore and Varanasi....before finally reaching Katmandu. His journey is a kaleidoscopic blend of tortuous train journeys and lethal truck drives; wild deserts, mountains and isolated villages. At heart this is the story of a generation that was escaping from the routine of conventional life and of how it found--or lost--its way. It provides an alluring insight into the nature of the "hippie trail" and of those who forged it, before cheap air travel shrank the world.

Author Biography

Patrick Marnham is author of eleven books, among them The Man Who Wasn't Maigret, Fantastic Invasion, So Far From God and biographies of Diego Rivera and Jean Moulin.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Kingsley Family

Mary's Childhood: Inner and Outer Worlds

Changes

The First Voyage Out

The Second Voyage Out

Exile in England

The Third Voyage Out

Traveling to the Ogooue River

The Journey to the Remboue

Corsico and Cameroons

Travels in West Africa""

Growing Influence

Valediction

The Final Bound

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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