'[A] well-written, comprehensive volume, one that can equally serve classrooms, research, and the general reader interested in a fascinating chapter in this important era'
Tom Fels, The Sixties, A Journal of History, Politics and Culture
Dr Sharif Gemie is a historian of modern Europe. He has mainly researched on minority peoples, including refugees, Muslims in Europe, Bretons and Galicians
Dr Brian Ireland is a modern American historian. He has written about such diverse topics as the US military in Hawaii, commemoration and remembrance, travelogues and road movies, rock music, comic books, television, and science fiction literature
Introduction: beginning the trail
1 Drugs and the trail
2 Sex and love on the road
3 The hippie as tourist
4 The hippie as pilgrim
5 Representing the trail: Hideous Kinky and beyond
Epilogue: ending the journey
Index