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9781932476460

Taylor Camp

by  John Wehrheim


ISBN-10: 1932476466

ISBN-13: 9781932476460

$65.00




Book Specs



Binding

Trade Cloth

Publisher

Serindia Contemporary, an imprint of Serindia Publications

Published on  

Oct 1, 2009

Edition  

3rd Edition

Dimensions  

11.38x1.30x11.34 Inches

Weight  

4.51 Pounds

About the Book

Features photographs from the Seventies that reveal a community that rejected consumerism for the healing power of Nature, while the story of Taylor Camp's seven-year existence is documented through interviews made thirty years later with the campers, their neighbours and the Kauai officials who finally evicted them. In 1969 Howard Taylor, brother of Elizabeth, bailed out a rag-tag band of thirteen young Mainlanders jailed on Kauai for vagrancy and invited them to camp on his oceanfront land. Soon waves of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets found their way to