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Asian Highway: An Odyssey of Travel, War and the Counterculture Kindle Edition

by John Thompson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"Asian Highway: An Odyssey of Travel, War and the Counterculture" brings a unique perspective to travel and backpacking. It is a singular narrative that mixes war, Marine Corps life and overland travel from Lisbon, Portugal through Morocco, Europe and South Asia to the coast of the Khmer Republic (Cambodia) in 1974. In the course of the author’s nine month backpacking trip he reflects on student life at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and gives an accurate and honest account of low-budget travel in the Third World. His story also provides personal and multiple primary and secondary sources of information on the Cambodian War in 1974, a year that most military historians have largely neglected.
With over one hundred never-before-published photos, hand-drawn maps and ten pages of footnotes author John C. Thompson provides a thought-provoking and integrated account of his coming to age in the hectic, early 1970s. Backpackers, students of the Indochina War and baby-boomers who were part of the hippie phenomena will find "Asian Highway" of intense interest. From the final blow-out of 60's radicalism on the “Strip” in Knoxville to hippiedom playing out on the slopes of the Himalayas and with vivid descriptions of war-torn Cambodia, "Asian Highway" provides tantalizing and fascinating insight into what constitutes pure freedom.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00H56TYZY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John C. Thompson; 1st edition (December 13, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 13, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11439 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 552 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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JW
5.0 out of 5 stars The real story
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2014
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Deep insights into the situations and real life of the times. An engaging read with the kind of detail that makes you feel like you were there. Highly recommended, wonderful pictures.
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3.0 out of 5 stars ok
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2014
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This was a good book that I enjoyed reading , and I would recommend it to anyone that liked nonfiction
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justlooking
4.0 out of 5 stars wish there had been more on cambodia
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2014
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This book revolves around the author's late-1974 visit to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh several months prior to its seizure by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. And as that place and period was my own thing, I devoured 'Asian Highway' as soon as it appeared a year ago. However for me to have reviewed the book back then would have been unfair to the writer because 'Asian Highway' wasn't what I personally wanted it to be. I wanted it full of Cambodia, but reality was that as the writer's stay in that country was brief due to financial constraints, he spun out that episode in his life through constant backtracks to his earlier meanderings in Europe and to his time in the military. Thus it frustrated me to have to skim through the entire book because I never knew when or where the writer would take us back to Phnom Penh.
However, I've since completed a more relaxed recent second reading and must say that I found the bulk of the material to be of interest.
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