# The Dharma Bums

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- Book: [The Dharma Bums](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/the-dharma-bums) ([The Dharma Bums.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/the-dharma-bums.md))
- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-960-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2007-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.