Apocalyptic Tribes, Smugglers & Freaks

Proudly shredding themselves through hedonism, poverty, hashish, opium, revelations, jails, death, insanity, and love.

Escaping America, Europe and elsewhere.

Basking in Asia's slums and paradises.

This nonfiction book documents and enshrines raw quotes from more than 500 people who journeyed on those dilapidated, utopian routes -- starting in the 1960s to today.

Nothing censored, except the names of the living, because of their illegalities and innocence.

Most traveled east, carried onward by the Earth's rotation.

Through Turkey to Iran, into Afghanistan.

Then Pakistan into India and to Nepal.

Often wondering if they would reach Kathmandu.

In 1972, 1975 and 1978 on, Richard S. Ehrlich traveled overland by public transportation across Asia.

Ehrlich is an American foreign correspondent based in Bangkok, Thailand, reporting news from Asia since 1978 and winner of Columbia University's Foreign Correspondent's Award.