This book is Harrison’s safarnameh—a Persian word describing a travel account. Drawing extensively on observations written during the journey, Safarnameh explores the physical, psychological, and emotional impact of long-distance travel and its lingering echoes. 

Trevor W. Harrison is a retired professor of sociologist at the University of Lethbridge. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen previous books, including three books of poetry. His fifteen book, Safarnameh: A Travellers Journey Along the Hippie Trail, is both a personal memoir and a critical examination of the circumstances around why so many westerners made the overland trip to India during the 1960s and 1970s.