Hand to Mouth to India by Tom Thumb- Out Now!
By Tom Thumb, Posted May 22, 2009
 Every good road junky needs a copy |
Support your Road Junky editor so he doesn’t have to hitchhike to India again.
Dear Road Junkies,
[UPDATE: the book can now be read for free online here#
So you’ve read half of the book online and I’ve told you the long, complicated story of how the book was written – now the book is finally on sale at Amazon it’s time to see how many road junkies will support their struggling editor as he enters his 30’s and feels the weight of his years on the road in his bones…
I hitchhiked from England to India when I was 20 out of a combination of idealism, laziness and the sheer arrogance of youth that convinced me the journey would be possible. I took my cues from Sufi stories, anecdotes of travelers from the Road to Kathmandu in the 70’s and even the Bible where Jesus exhorts his followers not to worry about what they’ll eat tomorrow.
Hand to Mouth to India is a youthful tale; escaping from the confines of home, chasing faraway dreams and with a voice that swings from the ranting to the humourous in a paragraph, prompting Time Out to comment: Thumb’s erratic self-consciousness can be entertaining at times which almost qualified as a positive review.
Another book of travel tales is on the way, featuring anecdotes from the days of Goa Trance, jail stories in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in Tokyo, 2 years as a Goy Boy in Israel and getting mixed-up with the mafia in Brazil – but we’re only going to publish it if you cheap bastards buy enough copies of Hand to Mouth to India…
Thanks for all your support over the years,
Tom
Tom Thumb’s personal website
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Hand to Mouth to India 
Hand to Mouth to India is the tale of when I hitchhiked from England to India at the age of 20 with no money at all.
Passing through England, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally arriving in Goa where I slept on the beach all season and wrote the book.
Buy it on the Kindle or on the Nook
Tales of a Road Junky 
Tales of a Road Junky covers the last 12 years of my journeys around the world. telling the tale of coming of age in the Goa trance scene, rescuing foreign prisoners in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in the street in Tokyo, getting into trouble with the medicine mafia in Brazil and delving deep into the heart of Israelity in the Promised Land.
Buy it on the Kindle or on the Nook
Bozo and the Storyteller
Imagine you, the room you’re in, the planet and everyone in it were all just a Story, figments of imagination in the mind of a Storyteller. But with Hoomanity set on self-destruction, the Storyteller’s health begins to fail and if he should die, what would become of the Story that he tells?
All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…
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