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A couple of kids from the 60's making it work.

The worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams of a generation that longs for peace. "A novelist who writes in a universal language...

Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made...

Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish.

Devastating family drama, abandonment, and drugs are balanced with laugh-out-loud humor that will keep you turning pages. You'll laugh, cry, and be left begging for more. The story begins with an episode that occurred in 1974. When Tom Bross (age 12) experiences a sudden move from Davis to San Anselmo to live with their God Family. Just two months later they move back to Davis with no place to live. His brother and sisters are dropped off at their friend's houses.

At 23, Carol Schlanger was an insecure upper-middle-class radical. Her parents spoiled her, and she expected the universe to follow. It didn't. After being expelled from Yale, losing a coveted Broadway lead, and seeing a suicide splatter at her feet, she left NYC for the Great Northwest, to live in nature with a man "who made everything beautiful with his hands". At that time she chose love and nature over art and career...until she didn't.

Paulo es un joven que sueña con ser escritor, se deja el cabello largo y sale al mundo en busca de la libertad y para darle un significado profundo a su vida. Una jornada que va desde el famoso "Tren de la muerte a Bolivia", después Perú, Chile y Argentina, hasta el encuentro con Karla en Ámsterdam, quien lo convence de viajar juntos en el Magic Bus, un autobús que viaja por Europa y Asia Central hasta Katmandú. En el camino, Karla y Paulo no sólo vivirán una extraordinaria historia de amor, sino también conocerán a maravillosos compañeros de viaje.

As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed 9,000 protests and 84 acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching 50,000, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society.

This collection of autobiographical short stories is the only time the devices of literary fiction have been used by a participant to put you there, living it. The structure of the collection is modular; that is, all of the stories are interconnected, yet each is self-contained, so they can be read in any order. And each is invested with the whole of that San Fran ‘60s experience, so the whole is in each part. Reviews of San Fran '60s are a chorus of praise. Check out the best reviews in "Editorial Reviews" below on this Amazon webpage. Right here are more, and below these, are some ...

In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Some dabbled with LSD while conducting experiments. They studied quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading, discussing the latest developments while lounging in hot tubs.

Die Helden in Paulo Coelhos neuem Roman sind der junge Rockmusiker Paulo aus Südamerika und die Holländerin Karla. Als sie sich in Amsterdam begegnen, trifft sie die Liebe wie der Blitz. Sie beschließen, gemeinsam aufzubrechen und als Reisende auf dem Hippie-Trail Erfahrungen zu sammeln, nach eigenen Werten zu suchen und danach zu leben. Mit an Bord sind ihre Freunde Rahul, Ryan und Mirthe sowie die Musik, die damals die Welt aus den Angeln hob.

An enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement. Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that...

“Hippie” is a creative non-fiction, real-time narrative memoir that details the metamorphosis of a man, a society, and a culture. It is the true-life story of a Hippie named Travelin-Apple, a highly intelligent, successful Advertising Executive and family man who decides to “tune-in, turn-on, and drop-out.” Travelin-Apple is a social satirist, metaphysician and armchair philosopher on a mission to discover the ideal way to live life, while on a never-ending spiritual quest, during the Hippie counter-culture movement in 1960’s and 1970’s America. Travelin-Apple and friends float ...

The story fast forwards to 1996 when a suspicious death in the family leaves the fate of two young boys in the hands of Tom’s dysfunctional family. Tom, the quintessential lifetime bachelor, and geeky Don Draper is thrust headfirst back into the mayhem of his family’s hippie lifestyle.

In this final episode of this memoir series, Tom, the lifetime bachelor, takes in his two young nephews to keep his sister's children in the family. The enormous challenges of this sudden and abrupt change leads to life-altering changes.

¿Buscas una forma natural, segura y efectiva de perder peso? Este audiolibro utiliza la hipnosis para ayudarte a lograr cambios duraderos. Diseñado para trabajar de manera integral con tu mente, tu comportamiento y tu cuerpo, te guía a través de sesiones de hipnosis adaptadas para establecer hábitos saludables, superar los antojos y la alimentación emocional, y desarrollar una mentalidad enfocada en el éxito a largo plazo.

Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture.

"Mississippi Hippie: A Life in 49 Pieces" invites you to embark on an extraordinary odyssey through the soul-stirring landscapes of the storied Mississippi Delta and the humming streetscapes of 1970s Memphis. Willy Bearden, a master storyteller, unveils his life's mosaic in a series of poignant and evocative vignettes that resonate with the echoes of a bygone era.

What if truth wasn’t shouted—but sung? The Rebel Hippie Mermaid: Songs of Truth and Redemption is a modern fable about awakening, courage, and the quiet power of love in a world driven by fear. Meet Luna Wave, a rebel-spirited mermaid whose voice carries more than melody—it carries remembrance. When fear-based systems tighten their grip on the human world, Luna leaves the sanctuary of the sea to challenge illusion, expose deception, and remind humanity of a forgotten truth: love unites, fear divides. Moving between ocean depths and human chaos, Luna gathers an unlikely chorus of ...