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    Sentimental Traveller
    Sentimental Traveller
    Sentimental Traveller
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    Sentimental Traveller

    By Bruce Hanna

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    "A border-crossing, boundary-breaking story. Observant as Paul Theroux... as compassionate as Ryszard Kapuscinski... as politically astute as Anthony Bourdain... and QUIRKY as hell."

    The book follows the author from the optimism of the Age of Aquarius through decades of poetic travel, childlike curiosity and disconcerted wonder, in the company of women met along the way. The narrative is woven from conversations and recurring relationships with streetwalkers, street hawkers, beggars and cripples, dreadlocked hashish-smoking holy-men, drug smugglers, rich tourists and travelling business folk. The author is impressed by the simple well-meaning dignity of folk he meets at all levels, and he becomes absorbed in the stories they tell that illuminate the decadent essence and paradox of the human condition under the yoke of prosperity and progress.

    The author’s journey begins in 1975 on a hippie-trail honeymoon in Asia with his indomitable, young wife. On a near fatal expedition to see Mount Everest, their escape from the high Himalayas is delayed by a plane crash. In following years, the author is obsessed with discovering a “definition of travelling” to guide him recapturing those haunting memories in his treasured notebooks. From the 20th to the 21st century, through country after country the notebooks fill, and the World changes dramatically, and so too does the author. Finally, as an old man he salvages from his notebooks in gripping detail the full story of the perilous mountain trek long ago, and the singing voices that miraculously saved him from violent doom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Hanna
    Release dateOct 23, 2020
    ISBN9781005095710
    Sentimental Traveller
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    Bruce Hanna

    “I’m no writer. I actually don’t write. The stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect clinging to the windscreen of a speeding vehicle.” – Bruce HannaAfter growing up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, Bruce Hanna became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to his refusal to collaborate in the USA-led war against Vietnam. He was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government.Hanna’s writing and cartoons appeared on fringes of the Australian press, including The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of his poetry, along with Suicide Circus, an illustrated homage to the self-devastation of the human race, along with his PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999).Hanna’s first novel Fatal Moments (published by A&R in 1987) caused Peter Bowler in Canberra Times to remark on a “delicious thread of dry humour running through the high drama” and “the sheer outrageous fecundity of Hanna’s imaginativeness.” Hanna reveals the World in spurts of liquid insight, and outrage etched into his writing by acidic humour, as reflected in Sentimental Traveller (2020) a compassion-fuelled narrative of cross-century travels. Some years ago, his e-books (Babu, Comedy of Turmoil and Scrapheap of Dreams) with Sentimental Traveller were made available free of charge, for educational purposes.

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