Safarnameh - by Trevor W Harrison (Paperback)

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Uses first-hand accounts to better understand the experience of those who traveled the popular overland trek from Turkey to India in the 1960s and 70s.
About the Author: Trevor W. Harrison is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Lethbridge and former director of the Parkland Institute, a policy think tank located at the University of Alberta.
200 Pages
Poetry, Canadian

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Book Synopsis

Uses first-hand accounts to better understand the experience of those who traveled the popular overland trek from Turkey to India in the 1960s and 70s.

Safarnameh--an Urdu word meaning "an account of a journey"--is the story of Trevor Harrison's overland trip from Turkey to India, a route taken by somewhere between two and six million young people from Western countries during the 1960s and 1970s until the Iranian Revolution and subsequent regional conflicts rendered the overland trek impossible. This first-person account amplifies, sometimes confirms, and occasionally challenges prevailing images of those who made the journey to India during that time. Based extensively on written observations made at the time, the book explores the physical, psychological, and emotional impact of the trek and its lingering echoes. Woven throughout the book are insights drawn from forty-eight in-depth interviews with people from several different countries who made the overland journey to India during roughly the same period. Though framed around a personal memoir, Safarnameh situates one individual's experience in the broader historical, cultural, and socio-political context of the time.

About the Author

Trevor W. Harrison is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Lethbridge and former director of the Parkland Institute, a policy think tank located at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada and Prairie Bohemian: Frank Gay's Life in Music, and, most recently, co-author of Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney's Legacy and Alberta's Right. He is also the author of a book of poetry, Another Voice.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)

Weight: 1.0 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 200

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: Canadian

Publisher: Athabasca University Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Trevor W Harrison

Language: English

Street Date: December 23, 2026

TCIN: 1006060257

UPC: 9781771994378

Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-0243

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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