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description = A Vanished Road is a travel story. It is an account of a journey overland through Middle Eastern countries to India in 1971. The world then was a very different place to the one it is today. | |||
:The countries I and five travelling companions travelled through - by train, boat, bus, local indescribable vehicles and sometimes on foot - were untouched and unspoilt by tourism and other international influences. Television was still a novelty in western countries; here it was unknown. For most of the local people, the hippies travelling through, breaking that later quite well-trodden trail, were the first westerners they had ever seen. | |||
:There were no maps or guidebooks. The only guide was the hippie grapevine and the pointing of a local's finger. Toby and Marianne Wheeler, founders of the famous Lonely Planet guidebooks, traversed this road a year later - a journey which provided the inspiration for the beginning of their venture. English was rare, other languages unknown, so communication took place on a different level - via the heart, via intuition. It was always a guessing game! | |||
:Our experiences were varied and unique. Sometimes we were met by innocent interest and open-hearted generosity, sometimes by infuriatingly deliberate stonewalling, sometimes by suspicion and hostility. We needed to keep our wits about us and be very patient. It was usually a smile and a calm centeredness that got us through. | |||
:The journey was physically and emotionally tough and demanding but the reward was a deeply touching and life-changing experience which cannot now be repeated. With the events of the last few decades - tragic in the case of Afghanistan - this road, with its unique flavour, has vanished forever. | | |||
author= [[Ma Prema Veena| Veena Schlegel]] | | |||
language = English| | |||
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editions = | |||
{{bookedition|Veena-avr-eb.jpg| Travelling Eastwards Through Distant Lands Now Changed Forever | 2011 | Amazon |1| 1480248002 | 142 |eBook| }} | |||
{{bookedition|Veena-avr.jpg| Travelling Eastwards Through Distant Lands Now Changed Forever | 2012 | Createspace, USA |1| 1480248002 | 140 |P| }} | |||
{{bookedition| | {{bookedition|A Vanished Road ; Cover front.jpg| Travelling Eastwards Through Distant Lands Now Changed Forever | 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | | 978-150556398-6 | 138 |P|Copyright © Veena Schlegel 2015. | ||
:: | ::Many thanks to dear friends [[Ma Anand Bhagawati|Bhagawati Moriss]] for proofing help, [[Ma Yoga Punya|Punya Kaufeler]] for creating my website, and Trish Sharpe for sharing her photographs, more of which can be seen on my website. | ||
::Cover design - Chloe Palmer (Friday Street Photo & Print) | |||
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|} | Image:A Vanished Road ; Cover back.jpg|Cover back. | ||
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Revision as of 14:38, 30 August 2016
- A Vanished Road is a travel story. It is an account of a journey overland through Middle Eastern countries to India in 1971. The world then was a very different place to the one it is today.
- The countries I and five travelling companions travelled through - by train, boat, bus, local indescribable vehicles and sometimes on foot - were untouched and unspoilt by tourism and other international influences. Television was still a novelty in western countries; here it was unknown. For most of the local people, the hippies travelling through, breaking that later quite well-trodden trail, were the first westerners they had ever seen.
- There were no maps or guidebooks. The only guide was the hippie grapevine and the pointing of a local's finger. Toby and Marianne Wheeler, founders of the famous Lonely Planet guidebooks, traversed this road a year later - a journey which provided the inspiration for the beginning of their venture. English was rare, other languages unknown, so communication took place on a different level - via the heart, via intuition. It was always a guessing game!
- Our experiences were varied and unique. Sometimes we were met by innocent interest and open-hearted generosity, sometimes by infuriatingly deliberate stonewalling, sometimes by suspicion and hostility. We needed to keep our wits about us and be very patient. It was usually a smile and a calm centeredness that got us through.
- The journey was physically and emotionally tough and demanding but the reward was a deeply touching and life-changing experience which cannot now be repeated. With the events of the last few decades - tragic in the case of Afghanistan - this road, with its unique flavour, has vanished forever.
- author
- Veena Schlegel
- language
- English
- notes
editions
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A Vanished RoadTravelling Eastwards Through Distant Lands Now Changed Forever
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A Vanished RoadTravelling Eastwards Through Distant Lands Now Changed Forever
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A Vanished RoadTravelling Eastwards Through Distant Lands Now Changed Forever
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