To a 1960s hippy, travel was about self-discovery, spiritualism and, of course drugs. Passing through Malaysia, the immigration authorities showed their contempt by stamping the young idealists' passports with the initials S.H.i.T. - Suspected Hippy in Transit. Dreaming of a greater journey than that of the rat-race, seasoned traveller Mark Mann decides to follow the faded tracks of the hippies, now re-emerging on a classic backpacker trail through South-East Asia. Wandering from China through Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, Mark explores both remote regions and steaming cities; experiencing the realities and contradictions of modern travel when East meets West, outlandish travellers are matched only in strangeness by experience, and the most extraordinary of situations are the norm.
- ISBN10 1840241624
- ISBN13 9781840241624
- Publish Date 15 January 2005
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 5 August 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Summersdale Publishers
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English