A PSYCHEDELIC ADVENTURE
"Dixon is a young Londoner born decades too late. He works a dull office job, lives for the psychedelic music of the late 1960s, and dreams with aching, hopeless longing of the Hippy Trail he can never walk. Then a tumble from a ladder in a basement storeroom knocks him on the head and the modern world disappears. Dixon wakes up convinced it is 1969, that he is a genuine hippy, and that the legendary overland route from London to India is open, safe, and waiting for him.
So begins a farcical odyssey across Europe, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, a journey as wildly misguided and gloriously sincere as Don Quixote's tilting at windmills. Blissfully unaware of the wars, borders and dangers that stand in his way, Dixon stumbles through Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Cappadocia, and Afghanistan, collecting misunderstandings like souvenirs and somehow charming everyone he meets, including tribute bands, Taliban commanders, fake gurus, Italian pump attendants, and a professor who plays a mean electric sitar.
Woven around his picaresque adventures are the stories of the people trailing in his wake: Hokum and Roger, his unlikely friends, who set off to rescue him in a VW Samba Bus; Salila, the exasperated British-Indian woman who first mistakes him for a hitchhiker and ends up tangled in his orbit; Gaston Dou, a clumsy French actor who is accidentally kidnapped by the world's most polite revolutionaries; and Dot, a young woman who believes she has beamed in from the year 2085 to study the secrets of the past.
Brimming with wordplay, absurdist comedy and genuine warmth, The Hippy Quixote is a love letter to an era of psychedelia, idealism, and overland adventure, and a meditation on nostalgia, delusion and the extraordinary things that happen when you leap into the unknown. The loose ends are all tied up in the final pages. But the road goes on... "
