Friday, June 27, 2025

Reflections on the 1970s Hippie Trail -- Two Perspectives on a Journey of a Lifetime

 


Last September, I published my book A Swede on the Hippie Trail (1974). Six months later, Rick Steves released On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer (2025). These are two of the latest in a growing crop of travel books and memoirs from the Hippie Trail, which attracted hundreds of thousands young travelers until it was closed by the Iranian revolution in 1979.

Read a comparison between the two books on my The Nordic Link substack.


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Reflections on the 1970s Hippie Trail -- Two Perspectives on a Journey of a Lifetime

  Last September, I published my book  A Swede on the Hippie Trail (1974) . Six months   later,   Rick Steves   released   On the Hippie Tra...