Hippie Tales of the Northwest Woods

The author of this book dropped out in 1970 at age thirty three, after an early life in Oroville, California, then worked for IBM and the State of California. His rural background and enquiring mind brought him to adopt the spirituality of the East and the consciousness of the Tao and Zen. Strongly influenced by the Beat Generation and later the early hippies he embraced the movement, seeing it as the confirmation of Gary Snyder's prediction (under the pseudonym Japhy Rider in 'The Dharma Bums'