Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac

Lonesome Traveler by Jack KerouacAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of 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 night life in New York; burying himself in the snow capped mountains of north west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love

Once this thought arrives

In this propulsive investigation

For seven-year-old Salim

America realises just how much she stands to lose - and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants

Will I really slip in sticky

at any given moment

Kalyug has begun

but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever

evident in the stories of such heroes as Buddha

complete with magics and myths all their own

Genghis Khan

The ambitious Victor Frankenstein loses his mother at a young age