Lonesome Traveller Rena Rossner Translated by Seamus Heaney Translations

Translated by Seamus Heaney Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman (c

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Lonesome Traveller Rena Rossner Translated by Seamus Heaney TranslationsA timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery. As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on 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 nightlife in New York;