Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac, published by Penguin Books Limited in 2000, is a travelogue that captures the essence of exploration and human experience. In this edition, spanning 160 pages, Kerouac shares his journeys across the United States, Mexico, Morocco, Paris, and London, presenting a vivid tapestry of life on the road through his poetic prose.
Readers will find a rich narrative that reflects Kerouac’s high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfillment and discovery. The book delves into various experiences, from witnessing a bullfight in Mexico to exploring the nightlife in New York and meditating in Tangiers. With themes of travel and literary exploration, Lonesome Traveler invites readers to engage with the diverse landscapes and cultures that shape human life.
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A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac’s Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur – Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.
‘Piquant writing, the best part of its flavour being … the hunt for the big experience, a touch of Hemingway and Whitman’
Guardian
‘Full of startling and beautiful things … one sees, hears and feels’
Sunday Times
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