Backpack Trekker: A 60's Flashback

By Beatlick Joe Speer

2013 New Mexico Arizona Book Awards Finalist The "Backpack Trekker" travel journals are by one of America's endearing itinerant raconteurs and eccentric performance poets - Beatlick Joe Speer - lost... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1456548778
• ISBN13: 9781456548773
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

If I were to say books are like angels moving between the living and the dead.

Beatlick Joe Speer was a vagabond throughout the 60's. His stories, told in over 100 treks, brings a Everest viewpoint with a Pacific Ocean vastness in scope to those times. The stories go back to The West, Land of Clear Light before Fracking, even to poetry meditations with a timeless Monk. Almost a perfect companion to this reading might be giving a listen to tracks from My Weekly Reader. Beatlick Joe Speer was into both music and movies. Here in his book is a time line of importance with a People's sense of history. It is our people, We the People, and we meet a lot of them with Joe. My favorite sections covered his fascination with the 60's movements. American Indian Movement, Feminist Movement, Black Power Movement, Back to the Land Movement, Anti-War Movement, Academic Freedom Movement, Free Speech Movement, Ecology Movement, and more. Threads, yarns take you there. And once you go to take in the view... you want to go yourself. Beatlick with his remarkable Pamela went through that time well. They even had that Magical Mystery Tour that few can dream about and fewer still do it. Word of warning though, Joe's book is an Angel coming from the past from a True New Mexico son, from close to Old Mexico on the Rio Grande. He still lives. Just like Hayduke, he lives. Read this to be a bit more understanding of that generation. It's remarkable. Similar books? That's difficult. Joe was one of a kind. Never read a book done like that.