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Press Release: Norwich author has facebook group with almost 80,000 members
Press Release: Norwich author has facebook group with almost
80,000 members
7 March 2024
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In 2014, Norwich author and UEA Chemistry graduate published his
first of many book on Amazon: "All About My Hat The Hippy
Trail 1972".
The book, strangely telling from the
point of view of a"hat", recounts Buffry's experience after
graduation and setting out eastwards in a small van with several
other graduates and little money. After several months he
arrived in India via Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and
Pakistan, meeting many people of different cultures, religions and
lifestyles on the way, a journey where drugs became an integral
part
of the experience.
Such a journey would be near-impossible
today, with many more dangers than in 1972, despite that we now
have
the likes of mobile phone and the internet, guide books and
gurus,
Alun Buffry says: "I did not set off either to
run away or to find anything but simply wanted to travel and see
part
of this wonderful world.
"Although I
ended up ill with dysentery and infectious hepatitis, penniless
and
hospitalised in Delhi, Kabul and Tehran, I would not swap the
life-changing experience for anything. Now at 74 years, I look
back
in amazement that I actually survived.
"In 2015,
after writing my memories of those days, I founded a Facebook
group
called 60s, '70s &' 80s Trails to India and Beyond. Remarkably
it now has almost 80,000 members from all over the world and
contains
a wealth of stories and pictures from people that made similar
journeys and people that live in the countries we visited."
Since
the publication of the book, Buffry has written over a dozen more,
recounting his other travels and experiences including his time in
prison for cannabis, poetry and science fiction. Having taught
himself to format and present his books, he has also offered a
free
service encouraging others to tell their own stories, most of
which
are also on Amazon and Kindle and linked though his web sire at
ABeFree Publishing.
Contact Alun Buffry at
alun@buffry.org.uk or find him easily on Facebook.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0993210716/ref=nosim?tag=webbooks05
https://www/buffry.org.uk/abefreepublishing.html
