James A. Michener · 1971 · global

James Michener's sprawling 1971 novel of the late-1960s counterculture. Six young people from different worlds, a draft dodger, a Norwegian beauty, a Black American activist, an English heiress, an Israeli, and a disillusioned Bostonian, wash up together at a bar in Torremolinos and drift on through Spain, Portugal, Africa and Morocco in a haze of music, drugs and freedom, chasing dreams that the world keeps refusing to make real.

1. 1
   Torremolinos

   Six young runaways gather at the Alamo bar on the Costa del Sol, the beginning of the drift.

2. 2
   The Algarve

   West in a VW bus to the fishing villages of southern Portugal.

3. 3
   Pamplona

   Back east and north for the running of the bulls at San Fermin, where the thrill turns bloody.

4. 4
   Mozambique

   And on to Africa, to a vast game reserve on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

5. 5
   Marrakech

   And finally to the drug-hazed alleys of Marrakech, where the drifting ends in tragedy.