num_pages: 157
description: As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat night life in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur – Kerouac reveals the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.
language: English
title: Lonesome Traveler
titlecomplete: Lonesome Traveler
genres: 20th Century, American, Short Stories, Travel, Novels, American Fiction, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 7313
publisher: Penguin Books