SUSPECTED HIPPIE IN TRANSIT
What was it like to backpack along the international hippie trail many years ago?
Martin Frumkin’s pre-tech, countercultural rucksack romp throughout Asia captures the tumultuous, don’t-give-a-damn attitude of such rebellious, nomadic vagabonds as Marco Polo, Ibn Battalu, and Neal Cassady. Martin “tuned in” and “turned on,” but chose not to “drop out.”
“Frumkin’s book is hard to put down . . . the author brings his considerable talents as a writer to chronicling his 1970s trips.”—US Review of Books
MARTIN FRUMKIN, born a boomer in Lower Manhattan in 1948, escaped middle-class morality and malaise in his travels throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. His journals became his compass—a guru of sorts—often in conflict with his own attempts at self-discovery while wrestling with God.
Five years of open-ended, spontaneous backpack travel morphed into a career in the trenches of psychiatric social work. First called “Don Martín” by fishermen in the Canary Islands, and later by friends and enemies, he lives with his wife in Colorado.
