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Roads toward a Supreme Fiction: a Story of Hard Travel as a Spiritual Method
Roads toward a Supreme Fiction: a Story of Hard Travel as a Spiritual Method
In the spring of 2017, writer Matthew Crompton set off alone on a bicycle into the mountains of Tibet. Armed with GPS maps, a tent, a camera and a keen eye, he would spend the next four months exploring and documenting some of the least-visited and most fraught areas of China and Central Asia.
Over more than six thousand kilometers of hard travel, he’d tangle with police in the locked-down Chinese province of Xinjiang, accidentally sneak into a military base in Tajikistan, experience a reverse mugging in Kazakhstan, carry his bicycle on a crumbling goat track over a 14,000-foot pass in Kyrgyzstan, and be rescued from a remote mountain road in Tibet by a monk on a motorcycle.
Along the way, he would bring the experiences of the trip to bear on a central question: What is it that we’re seeking when we travel? How is it that hard travel transforms us, and how can we be liberated by it?
Over more than six thousand kilometers of hard travel, he’d tangle with police in the locked-down Chinese province of Xinjiang, accidentally sneak into a military base in Tajikistan, experience a reverse mugging in Kazakhstan, carry his bicycle on a crumbling goat track over a 14,000-foot pass in Kyrgyzstan, and be rescued from a remote mountain road in Tibet by a monk on a motorcycle.
Along the way, he would bring the experiences of the trip to bear on a central question: What is it that we’re seeking when we travel? How is it that hard travel transforms us, and how can we be liberated by it?
- Dimensions: 15.24 x 1.32 x 22.86 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 230 pages
- Book Type: Paperback
- Publication date: 19 February 2025
- ISBN-13: 979-8305025095
- Reading age: 12 - 18 years
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