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The wanderings of Jack Kerouac, the insightful journey of Peter Matthiessen as portrayed in his book The Snow Leopard and the long treks of Satish Kumar have influenced more than a few to take to the road in search of learning, adventure and themselves. Having done this, they return to where they started and - as the saying goes - truly see it as if for the first time.
What separates true travel from the sometime emptiness of packaged holidays and backpacker wanderings is the learning we gain... the insights into the many different ways that people live and make a living on the Earth.
Travel is movement and there is an exuberance to be found in traversing terrain, whether by foot or vehicle. Travel is also stopping to learn. In this way, travel becomes life and our wanderings become a pilgrimage in search of that.
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Novels of travel and life as transit by Jack Kerouac...
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On The Road (1957)
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The Dhamma Bums (1958)
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Big Sur (1962)
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Desolation Angels (1965)
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Lonesome Traveller (1960)
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Satori In Paris (1966)
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Article: discovering Kerouac in the city [ More ]
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Travel books by other authors...
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Peter Matthiessen: The Snow Leopard; 1978; Viking, NY.
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Satish Kumar: No Destination: an autobiography; 1992; Resurgence Books; ISBN 1 870098 46 3
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Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush; 1974 (originally published 1958); Pan Books, London. ISBN 0 330 16623 3
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John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley - in search of America; 1962 ; Pengui Books; ISBN 0-14-005320-4
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Heibrich Harrer: Seven Years in Tibet; 1953.
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Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia; 1977; Vintage Classics, UK. ISBN 0099769514
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J. Maarten Troost: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific; 2004; Broadway Books;
ISBN 0-7679-1530-5
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Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel; 2002; Penguin Books, UK.
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Page updated:
Saturday, 13 October 2007
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ON THE ROAD - travel & places...
Byron Bay Blues
Byron Bay - party town for visitors or home town for residents? Tourism, backpackers and noise trouble an idyllic coastal town
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Let's renovate, not destroy Bonnie Vale
Restoration may be a better solution for Bonnie Vale's huts
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Hidden path to cove's history
A battle to save the fishermen's huts at Crater Cove preserved local history
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Byron backroads
People and places... a tour of the hill country behind the coast
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Nimbin - where myth and reality meet
It is a unique little town, one the locals are proud of
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Tagari - an experiment fades
Experiments successful and failed at a place now gone
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Weak coffee under the Western Tiers
A walk to Liffey Falls ends with coffee and crumpets in a curious little tea house
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A Tasmanian Mountain Miscellany
Lost in the highlands - a false trail on the Central Plateau
It's a rocky, undulating and windswept place, Tasmania's Central plateau, an easy palce to get lost on
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Small hut on a rocky plateau
Only memory remains of Mt Wellington's huts
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To the summit, one last time
Before parting, it was one last summer's day on the Mt Anne summit
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Figure in a landscape
Solitude on a solo walk through a landscape of mountain and high plain
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To Rhona
The Tasmanian interior hid geographic gems in the 1970s. Some took a bit of a walk to get to
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Travel by hut
Highland huts offer destination, refuge and conviviality
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A young German woman and an Englishman take a break in life to work as WWOOFers (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) in the mountainous back blocks of subtropical Northern NSW. WWOOFing is an example or purposeful travel.
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