Les Braunstein

A Lucky Monkey on the Hashish Trail Les Braunstein

This is a true adventure story. In 1967  Les Braunstein, a New York rock singer leaves his band, the Soft White Underbelly, (the baby Blue OysterCult) travels around the world, buys a horse in Afghanistan, and rides alone through the bandit controlled Khyber Pass. Plus many more sixties hijinks. 

The Lucky Monkey stories is a three part memoir beginning with this one, number three, A Lucky Monkey on the Hashish Trail which takes us from Istanbul to Ceylon in 1970 passing through lands, and a moment in history that are truly gone.

An excerpt from this volume can be found on-line, on Worldhum.com, aTravel Channel site as "American fool in the Khyber Pass".  Check it out.  If you don't like that DON'T BUY THIS BOOK, it's more of the same.

"That was a most wonderfully exciting read, like a vignette out of another dimension. Can't wait for the full escapades to unfold in the book." --Bolle Gregmar - Archivist of the Blue Oyster Cult.