Bill Morgan's "The Beats Abroad" (2015)

San Francisco, California, US: City Lights Books (book), 2015.
8.5" x 4.5" x 0.875", 300 pages, softcover, perfect-bound, ISBN 978-0-87286-689-8.

The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan, as published in softcover by City Lights Books (San Francisco, California, US) in 2015. This is a dense compilation of the Beat Generation writers' activities outside the US.

William S. Burroughs is heavily represented, in sections on Paris and Meudon (France); Rome and Venice (Italy); Edinburgh (Scotland); Tangier and Marrakech (Morocco); Athens (Greece); Madrid (Spain); Mexico City; Panama City; Bogotá and Putomayo (Columbia); Quito (Ecuador); Lima (Peru); London, East Grinstead, and Cambridge (England); Copenhagen (Denmark); Heidelberg (Germany); Haute-Nendaz (Switzerland); Vaduz (Liechtenstein); Vienna (Austria); and Dubrovnik (Croatia).

Burroughs is mentioned throughout the book, and entries are accompanied by photographs of William S. Burroughs (mostly by Allen Ginsberg).

This copy was acquired after a visit with Soheyl Dahi (Sore Dove Press) in San Francisco, at City Lights Bookstore.

Contents:

• Introduction
• I. France and Mediterranean Europe
• Paris
• The Beat Hotel
• Shakespeare and Company
• William S. Burroughs
• Brion Gysin
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Gregory Corso
• Harold Norse
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Jack Kerouac
• Carl Solomon
• Maurice Girodias
• Others
• France
• Meudon
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Normandy
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Morlaix
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Brest
• Jack Kerouac
• Charleville
• Allen Ginsberg
• Strasbourg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Aix-en-Provence
• Jack Kerouac
• Allen Ginsberg
• Kenneth Rexroth
• Fontrousse
• Robert Creeley
• Lambesc
• Robert Creeley
• Marseilles
• Brion Gysin
• Others
• Cannes
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso
• Nice
• Gregory Corso
• Spain
• Barcelona
• Gregory Corso
• Allen Ginsberg
• Madrid
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• William S. Burroughs
• Nerja
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Philip Lamantia and Nancy Peters
• Majorca
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Robert Creeley
• Monaco
• Monte Carlo
• Gregory Corso
• Italy
• Milan
• Nanda Pivano
• Gregory Corso
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Breschia
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Venice
• Allen Ansen
• Gregory Corso
• Allen Ginsberg
• Rapallo
• Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg
• Florence
• Gregory Corso
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Pisa
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Assisi
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Spoletto
• Festival of Two Worlds
• Rome
• Gregory Corso
• Allen Ginsberg
• Harold Norse
• Jack Kerouac
• John Clellon Holmes
• William S. Burroughs and Alan Ansen
• Others
• Ostia
• Primo Festivale Internazionale dei Poeti
• Anzio
• Sebastian Sampas
• Naples
• Harold Norse
• Allen Ginsberg
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
• Jack Kerouac
• John Clellon Holmes
• Ischia
• W. H. Auden
• Amalfi
• Allen Ginsberg
• Cefalù, Sicily 
• Living Theatre
• Greece
• Athens
• Gregory Corso
• Alan Ansen
• William S. Burroughs
• Allen Ginsberg
• Harold Norse and Irving Rosenthal
• Philip Lamantia and Nancy Peters
• Hydra and the Greek Islands
• Gregory Corso
• Harold Norse
• II. Northern and Central Europe
• England
• London
• Jack Kerouac
• William S. Burroughs
• Gregory Corso
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Eric Mottram
• Others
• East Grinstead
• William S. Burroughs
• Taplow
• Brion Gysin
• Glastonbury
• Janine Pommy Vega
• Bath
• Brion Gysin
• Ian Sommerville
• Oxford
• Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso
• Cambridge
• Ian Sommerville and William S. Burroughs
• Newcastle Upon Tyne
• Basil Bunting
• Tom Pickard
• Scotland
• Edinburgh
• William S. Burroughs
• Glasgow
• Helen Adam and Alexander Trocchi
• Wales
• Cardiff
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Swansea
• Allen Ginsberg and Dylan Thomas
• Black Mountains
• Allen Ginsberg
• The Netherlands
• Amsterdam
• Gregory Corso and Simon Vinkenoog
• Denmark
• Copenhagen
• William S. Burroughs
• Germany
• Berlin
• Gregory Corso
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• ruth weiss
• Others
• Andernach
• Charles Bukowski
• Frankfurt
• Gregory Corso
• Hamburg
• Allen Ginsberg
• Heidelberg
• William S. Burroughs and Carl Weissner
• Munich
• Allen Ginsberg
• Gregory Corso
• Switzerland
• Lausanne
• Timothy Leary
• Haute-Nendaz
• William S. Burroughs
• Zurich
• Robert Frank
• Liechtenstein
• Vaduz
• William S. Burroughs
• Austria
• Vienna
• William S. Burroughs
• Croatia
• Dubrovnik
• William S. Burroughs
• Others
• Macedonia
• Struga
• Allen Ginsberg
• III. Eastern Europe
• Czech Republic
• Prague
• Allen Ginsberg
• Poland
• Kraków
• Allen Ginsberg
• Warsaw
• Allen Ginsberg
• Belarus
• Minsk
• Allen Ginsberg
• Russia
• Moscow
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Nevel
• Naomi Ginsberg
• Khabarovsk
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Nakhodka
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• IV. Africa
• Tangier
• William S. Burroughs
• Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles
• Brion Gysin
• Jack Kerouac
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Alan Ansen
• Gregory Corso
• Timothy Leary
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Philip Lamantia
• Others
• Morocco
• Jajouka
• Brion Gysin
• Marrakech
• Paul Bowles and Allen Ginsberg
• William S. Burroughs
• Algeria
• Algiers
• Timothy Leary
• Tunisia
• Tunis
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Egypt
• Cairo
• Peter Orlovsky
• Mali
• Timbuktu
• Ted Joans
• Senegal
• Dakar
• Allen Ginsberg
• Djibouti
• Djibouti
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Kenya
• Mombasa
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Nairobi
• [general]
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Botswana
• Okavango Delta
• Gary Snyder
• South Africa
• Johannesburg
• Sinclair Beiles
• V. Middle East
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Allen Ginsberg
• Janine Pommy Vega
• Alan Ansen
• Haifa
• Allen Ginsberg
• Tel Aviv
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Elat
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Lebanon
• Beirut
• Peter Orlovsky
• VI. Asia
• India
• Bombay (Mumbai)
• Robert Creeley
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Joanne Kyger
• Ellora
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Joanne Kyger
• New Delhi
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Joanne Kyger
• Hardwar
• Joanne Kyger
• Gary Snyder
• Almora
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Joanne Kyger
• Dharamsala
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Joanne Kyger
• Agra
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Benares (Varanasi)
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Allahabad
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Patna
• Allen Ginsberg and the Hungry Generation
• Calcutta (Kolkata)
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Gangtok
• Allen Ginsberg
• Nepal
• Kathmandu
• Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger
• Janine Pommy Vega
• Burma
• [general]
• Robert Creeley
• Angkor Wat
• Allen Ginsberg
• Vietnam
• Saigon
• Allen Ginsberg
• China
• Beijing
• Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
• Baoding
• Allen Ginsberg
• Yangtze River
• Allen Ginsberg
• Suchou
• Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
• Shanghai
• Allen Ginsberg
• South Korea
• Seoul
• Allen Ginsberg
• Japan
• Kyoto
• Gary Snyder
• Joanne Kyger
• Philip Whalen
• Allen Ginsberg
• Nagasaki
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Kagoshima
• Nanao Sakaki
• Suwanose Island (Suwamosejima)
• Nanao Sakaki
• Gary Snyder
• Yokohama
• Gary Snyder
• Tokyo
• Gary Snyder
• Allen Ginsberg
• VII. Australia and Pacific Islands
• Australia
• Adelaide
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg
• Melbourne
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Andrei Voznesensky
• Murray River
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Ayers Rock
• Allen Ginsberg
• Alice Springs
• Gary Snyder and Nanao Sakaki
• Fiji
• [general]
• Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• VIII. Canada and Greenland
• Greenland
• Bluie West One Airfield (Narsarsuaq)
• Jack Kerouac
• Canada
• Sydney, Nova Scotia
• Jack Kerouac
• Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
• Allen Ginsberg
• Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Allen Ginsberg and Chögyam Trungpa
• Rivière du Loup, Quebec
• Jack Kerouac
• Kamouraska, Quebec
• Jack Kerouac
• St. Pacôme, Quebec
• Gabrielle Levesque Kerouac
• Quebec City, Quebec
• Jack Kerouac Conference
• Montreal, Quebec
• Allen Ginsberg
• Toronto, Ontario
• Allen Ginsberg
• Vancouver, British Columbia
• Vancouver Poetry Conference
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Ted Joans
• IX. Latin America and the Caribbean
• Mexico City
• William S. Burroughs
• Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady
• Allen Ginsberg
• Gregory Corso
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Philip Lamantia
• Lucien Carr and David Kammerer
• Ray and Bonnie Bremser
• El Corno Emplumado
• Mexico
• Baja California
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Tijuana (Baja California Norte)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Ensenada (Baja California Norte)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Nogales (Sonora)
• Jack Kerouac
• Chihuahua (Chihuahua)
• Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso)
• Culiacán (Sonora)
• Jack Kerouac
• Sabinas Hidalgo (Nuevo León)
• Jack Kerouac
• Monterrey (Nuevo León)
• Jack Kerouac
• Limón (Tamaulipas)
• Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady
• Sierra de Nayarit (Nayarit)
• Philip Lamantia
• Guadalajara and Barra de Navidad (Jalisco)
• Denise Levertov
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• John Hoffman
• San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato)
• Neal Cassady
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Cuernavaca (Morelos)
• Timothy Leary
• Cholula (Puebla)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Veracruz (Veracruz)
• Bonnie and Ray Bremser
• Oaxaca (Oaxaca)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Michael McClure
• Joanne Kyger
• Palenque (Chiapas)
• Allen Ginsberg
• Yajalón (Chiapas)
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lerma (Campeche)
• Charles Olson
• Mérida (Yucatán)
• Allen Ginsberg
• Chichén Itzá (Yucatán)
• Allen Ginsberg
• Cuba
• Havana
• Allen Ginsberg
• LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Haiti
• Port-au-Prince
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Virgin Islands
• St. Thomas
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Guatamala
• Los Tarrales
• Robert Creeley
• Guatemala City
• Ray Bremser
• Nicaragua
• Managua
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Panama
• Panama City
• William S. Burroughs
• Jack Kerouac
• Colombia
• Bogotá
• William S. Burroughs
• Putomayo
• William S. Burroughs
• Ecuador
• Quito
• William S. Burroughs
• Peru
• Lima
• William S. Burroughs
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Janine Pommy Vega
• Pucallpa
• Allen Ginsberg
• Machu Picchu
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Allen Ginsberg
• Bolivia
• La Paz
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Chile
• Concepción
• Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Postscript
• Bibliography of Works Cited
• Index