Michael Brian Schiffer is Fred A. Riecker Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Research Associate at the Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of six previous books on technology.
A self indulgence recap of a hippie dropout weaving his way across Europe and the Middle East to India in the 1970s. I got really tired of the celebration of drug use. There were some informative observation of people, place and cultures.