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Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India

af Rory MacLean

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"In the sixties and seventies hundreds of thousands of young Westerners took off for India, blazing the 'hippie trail' from Istanbul to Kathmandu. These intrepid pioneers left behind their parents' world of postponed pleasure, the guilt of Empire and the spectre of war. Aboard the weirdest procession of unroadworthy vehicles ever to rattle across the face of the earth, they reached for a new kind of life, and became the first movement of people who travelled to be colonized rather than to colonize." "On foot and by bus, Rory MacLean retraces their wide-eyed adventures along the route reopened for the first time in a generation and travels across a region that has experienced extraordinary and turbulent changes since that Summer of Love. In Istanbul he meets the original Flower Child. In Tehran, capital of revolution, he encounters two Iranian boys whose dream of wealth in the West ends in tragedy. At Bagram airbase he sings 'Age of Aquarius' with US Special Forces commandos in Paisley shirts and granny glasses. In Kabul he picks through the smashed statues that are now Afghanistan's history. Along the way he reveals how profoundly the trail transformed travellers' lives and the countries they traversed, unleashing forces that changed for ever the way we travel the world."--BOOK JACKET.… (mere)
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> RÉSUMÉ. — Entre le milieu des années 1960 et la fin des années 1970, des centaines de milliers de jeunes Occidentaux partirent pour l’Inde, balisant la «route des hippies» d’Istanbul à Katmandou. Ces routards, appartenant à la génération du baby-boom, avaient entre dix-neuf et vingt ans. Pionniers intrépides et contestataires, ils laissaient derrière eux le monde de leurs parents, où régnaient les plaisirs de l’après-guerre, la culpabilité de l’Empire et le spectre de la guerre. Souvent à bord d’une étrange procession de véhicules cahotant à travers la planète, ils espéraient trouver une vie nouvelle. C’était la première fois qu’on voyait des gens partir en si grand nombre vers d’autres contrées, non pas pour coloniser mais pour être colonisés.Rory MacLean, trop jeune à l’époque pour faire partie du voyage, a décidé en 2001, de sillonner tantôt à pied, tantôt en autocar, cette route des hippies pour y retrouver la trace de leurs aventures et de leurs émerveillements. Tout au long de son périple de six mois, Rory MacLean révèle à quel point la piste a profondément transformé à la fois la vie des voyageurs mais aussi des pays qu’ils ont traversés, déchaînant des forces qui ont modifié à tout jamais la façon dont nous parcourons le monde. Magic Bus décrit un voyage unique et tout à fait captivant à travers une époque et un paysage à la beauté étonnante et à l’amère cruauté, qui représente la lutte moderne entre l’Est et l’Ouest, les rêves et la réalité, l’espoir et la tragédie.
Biographie de l'auteur
Rory MacLean, qui vit actuellement entre l'Angleterre et Berlin, est né en 1954 à Vancouver. Il a commencé da carrière d'écrivain voyageur en 1989.
*Titre original : Magic Bus: On The Hippie Trail From Istanbul To India (2006)

> MAGIC BUS, par Rory Maclean, éditions Hoëbeke. — Dans sa collection “Étonnants voyageurs”, Michel Lebris nous propose notamment Magic bus, de Rory MacLean, un Anglo-Canadien fameux qui, trente ans après la grande migration des routards, refait le trajet mythique vers l’Inde et l’Himalaya, via la Turquie et l’Iran, par la route, ouvrant une incroyable “archéologie hippie". Que reste-t-il des rêves de la contre-culture nomade dans ces pays qui, depuis, ont essentiellement connu la violence ? Un te! voyage est-il seulement possible ? Oui, pour un globe-trotter audacieux qui va de surprise en surprise. Tantôt les routards ont laissé un souvenir infâme (pas forcément légitime : le blâme peut être d'avoir transmis aux femmes un désir de liberté interdite). Tantôt, c'est toute une vie qui se réveille, comme chez ce chauffeur de car dans une montagne perdue, qui sort ses K7 du Pink Floyd, ravi de la complicité ravivée, si longtemps après. Formidable récit d’aventure et plongée dans l’histoire de nos rêves. À signaler aussi Chez le même éditeur et dans la même collection, L’Ombre de la Route de la soi de Colin Thubron, dont le propos est explicite, parallèle à celui de Rory MacLean, en plus classique. —Patrice van EERSEL
Nouvelles Clés, (58), Eté 2008, (p. 149)
  Joop-le-philosophe | Jan 26, 2023 |
This summer, when it seems likely that my travel mileage will be the smallest since when I was a baby (thank you, global pandemic) I decided to do a little bit of armchair travelling. Rather than providing a nostalgic journey to happier times, this book only reminded me how the world is screwed up beyond repair.

I was aware that this wasn't a memoir from an overland journey from Europe to Nepal in 1960s/70s. The author made that clear in the blurb - he only tried to follow in the footsteps of the original intrepids. Obviously, the situation in the countries on the hippie trail has drastically changed, but that was not the main source of my disappointment.

From an author who decides to write about the hippie trail, something so deeply inspired by the idealism of people who had undertaken such a journey, I expected a memoir with a little more flair, and more importantly, more depth. MacLean is without a doubt knowledgeable and presents a bunch of facts that may or may not be related to the topic. However, more often than not the factual data is very general and sometimes simply wrong.

His remarks on the local people are sometimes so superficial (no local Turks at a beach rave in Olympos?) and full of cliches to the point that I started to think he made up some portions of the journey.

My least favourite part of the book was Afghanistan, I thought that the American military base stuff was redundant and regardless of the fact that is a very big part of life in Afghanistan today, for a book that is supposed to be about hippies it just didn't fit at all.

Another thing that bothered me was that the writing style was boring and without style. This book reads fast and easily but it really doesn't make you think. I feel like MacLean is stuck between trying to be politically correct and sharing an honest opinion, but that kind of playing it safe never made for high-quality travel writing. ( )
  ZeljanaMaricFerli | Sep 8, 2020 |
The author beats his own path down the old hippie trail of the 60s passing through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. Meeting and exchanging notes with some of the original old hats. A trek made popular by the Beatles and Ginsberg.
  danoomistmatiste | Jan 24, 2016 |
The author beats his own path down the old hippie trail of the 60s passing through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. Meeting and exchanging notes with some of the original old hats. A trek made popular by the Beatles and Ginsberg.
  kkhambadkone | Jan 17, 2016 |
I was torn trying to star rate this book. It's a good read, and the author has a gift for using a few words to give the reader a fairly clear picture of persons he meets on the way. The premise is strong as well. It just didn't entirely gell for me as a story. Though some of the characters we get introduced to are quite memorable. ( )
  Oreillynsf | Jun 9, 2010 |
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"In the sixties and seventies hundreds of thousands of young Westerners took off for India, blazing the 'hippie trail' from Istanbul to Kathmandu. These intrepid pioneers left behind their parents' world of postponed pleasure, the guilt of Empire and the spectre of war. Aboard the weirdest procession of unroadworthy vehicles ever to rattle across the face of the earth, they reached for a new kind of life, and became the first movement of people who travelled to be colonized rather than to colonize." "On foot and by bus, Rory MacLean retraces their wide-eyed adventures along the route reopened for the first time in a generation and travels across a region that has experienced extraordinary and turbulent changes since that Summer of Love. In Istanbul he meets the original Flower Child. In Tehran, capital of revolution, he encounters two Iranian boys whose dream of wealth in the West ends in tragedy. At Bagram airbase he sings 'Age of Aquarius' with US Special Forces commandos in Paisley shirts and granny glasses. In Kabul he picks through the smashed statues that are now Afghanistan's history. Along the way he reveals how profoundly the trail transformed travellers' lives and the countries they traversed, unleashing forces that changed for ever the way we travel the world."--BOOK JACKET.

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