On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of Counterculture
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156025114X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 205 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Five Stars" according to Scotty. A must read!. "Five Stars" according to Charles Conner. Claasic!. "A must for any who wishes to travel further" according to Jennifer Hirst. Anyone who is a Kesey fan MUST read this book. It is basically the photo album which correlates with Wolfe's Electric Kool-Ade Acid Test. It gives more insight into the minds of the pranksters and others. I highly recommend this book to any who is interested in the counterculture. The book as well as the trip are truly legendary.
Twenty youths crossed America in a psychedelically painted school bus for an entire month. 16 color, 75 black-and-white photos.. The setting is the 1960s with the Psychedelic Revolution as the backdrop. This legendary trip's 25th anniversary is a rare document of a nation in transition
We kept our world small"--is a nice counterbalance to the broader claims made elsewhere.) Perry's careful reconstruction of the nine-city trip has its wonders, too, such as the meeting with a surly, intoxicated Jack Kerouac who, upon seeing a "throne" prepared for him by the Pranksters with an American flag draped over it, "mute and quiet took the flag and folded it up neatly and put it over the side." Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In the effort to offer a "complete guide" to the legendary psychedelic bus trip taken by Kesey and 13 other "pranksters" in 1964, this book lacks only a bound-in tab of LSD-25 to make it the real thing. Interviews with participants and witnesses, a hybrid essay/fantasy by prankster Babbs, excerpts from Tom Wol