Travelling Light
Stories from the world we
explored in the 70s
Written by Steve Lowndes, Images by Lisa Potts.
Concept by Lee Lowndes, General Manager, Daylight Creative
Over 250 photographs and drawings. 95000 words and 320 pages.
Travelling Light is to be released by Quentin Wilson Publishing in October 2022
This is the true story of life on the road for two young people back in the day when travel was one big adventure. In 1969 Steve Lowndes and Lisa Potts met by chance at a dusty bus stop in Bolivia and spent the next ten years travelling around the world together. Pakistan, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, America, Canada, Indonesia, Australia… all these countries and more attracted our intrepid travellers in their quest to explore, to experience the unfamiliar, in the new decade of the 1970s.
These are the days before credit cards, mobile phones or internet cafés, when the journey itself is the point of the experience, destinations are vaguely on the other side of the planet, and getting there simply takes as long as it takes.
Full of colour, beauty, romance and the pleasures of the open road, these tales of two travellers in the days before mass tourism and clogged cities, lovingly recalled here by Steve and beautifully photographed by Lisa, really are journeys to write home about. No plans, just you, your passport, a change of clothes and the appeal of the unknown, the thrill of taking on whatever tomorrow brings.
Whether you made a similar journey, or wanted to, or would like to, or are yet to be seduced by the lure of the road less travelled, Travelling Light is the book for you.
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