Safarnameh

Trevor W. Harrison

Format
Paperback
Publisher
AU Press
Country
CA
Published
30 May 2025
Pages
200
ISBN
9781771994378

Safarnameh

Trevor W. Harrison

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 2 million and 6 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 travelling and its lingering echoes. Woven throughout the book are comments and 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.

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