Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums

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"The Dharma Bums is a novel written by the author Jack Kerouac. Main character in this book is narrator Ray Smith based on jack Keriuac. One episode in the book features Smith, Ryder, and Henry Morley (based on real-life friend John Montgomery) climbing Matterhorn Peak in California. It relates Kerouac's introduction to this type of mountaineering and inspired him to spend the following summer as a fire lookout for the United States Forest Service on Desolation Peak in Washington. ..... A deluxe edtion of Kerouac’s 1958 classic

Published just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High

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