A Season In Heaven – David Tomry

In the heady days of the late 1960s, Western counterculture became fascinated with the idea of India, ‘a place where nothing was unacceptable, people were free, turned on, naturally wise and understood the concept of enlightenment… you could live in the forest, eat berries, meditate in a cave, wander around naked, do whatever you felt like, and nobody would take a blind bit of notice because everyone innately understood…’
Thousands sought freedom in places with magical names: Afghanistan, the Himalayas, Benares, Rishikesh, Goa, Kathmandu. They journeyed by bus, truck and third-class railway luggage rack, towards experiences that proved mysterious, hilarious, terrifying or profound – sometimes all at the same time. In the wilds, in mystical sadhu caves, in palm-leaf huts, in questionable hotels, in all manner of unlikely places they encountered a world that was to change their lives.
In A Season in Heaven, these true tales are told, for the first time, in the words of travellers themselves. The result is a vivid narrative which will entice you, too, onto the Road to Kathmandu.
A Season In Heaven – David Tomry