A Hero for High Times : A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994.
And it's a story of friendship between two
men, one who did things, and one who thought about things, between
theory and practice, between a hippie and a punk, between two gentlemen,
no longer in the first flush of youth, who still believe in love.
It's a story of why
you know your birth sign, why you have friends called Willow, why sex
and drugs and rock'n'roll once mattered more than money, why dance music
stopped the New-Age Travellers from travelling, and why you need to
think twice before taking the brown acid. It's the story of the
hippies for those who weren't there - for Younger Readers who've never
heard of the Aldermaston marches, Oz, the Angry Brigade, the Divine
Light Mission, Sniffin' Glue, Operation Julie, John Seymour, John
Michell, Greenham Common, the Battle of the Beanfield, but who want to
understand their grandparents' stories of turning on, tuning in and not
quite dropping out before they are gone for ever. It's for Younger
Readers who want to know how to build a bender, make poppy tea, and
throw the I-Ching.
Deep in a wood in the Marches of Wales, in an ancient school bus there
lives an old man called Bob Rowberry. A Hero for High Times is the
story of how he ended up in this broken-down bus. It's also the story of
his times, and the ideas that shaped him.
A Hero for High Times - Ian Marchant
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