Publisher's Synopsis
A polite, well behaved travel book this is not. In the early 70s Terry Tarnoff left the US with a change of clothes and sixteen harmonicas - he didn't return for eight years. One of a new generation fed up with the war and their own culture, he "dropped out" and headed for the remotest and most exotic outposts he could find.Terry's journey will have you trapped in a Bangkok hotel room with a strung-out junkie named Zed, falling in love with the elusive Annika in the snow drifts of Stockholm, smoking a chillum with lepers, trance-dancing with Tibetans and surrounded by Masai Warriors in Tanzania. Hunter S Thompson meets Alex Garland and Jack Kerouac in this wild music and drug-fuelled ride through South East Asia, Africa and Europe before the days of tour groups and travel guides. This is a fevered adventure, a tumultuous love story and a spiritual odyssey all rolled into one."For those who lived through the Summer of Love, The Bone Man of Benares will provide satisfying doses of wincing nostalgia. For those who didn't, here is an entertaining manual of what they missed." Herbert Gold, author of Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool
