Lonesome Traveler

By KEROUAC JACK

Journey through diverse lands, seeking self-fulfillment and life's vibrant tapestry.

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157 pages

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Embark on a vivid journey with a restless traveler exploring the US, Mexico, and beyond. From opium-laced bullfights in Mexico to meditations in Tangiers, each adventure reveals a quest for self-discovery and the vibrant diversity of life. As he stands on a train engine or falls for Montmartre's charm, the traveler’s poetic reflections invite you to ponder: What does it mean to truly live? Dive into a world where every moment is a celebration of human experience and the pursuit of fulfillment.

From the publisher

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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