I don't remember where I picked up this one but it is an odd little book. There is really no trace to be found anywhere of the book's publisher, Moonbow Press...Sadly, there is some info available on the books author, Robert Nichols...this is from the April 12, 1997 edition of the NY Times: "A 58-year-old man found dead under a purple shroud in his trailer home in Northern California left behind a suicide note suggesting that he hoped to join members of the Heaven's Gate cult on a space ship in the trail of the Hale-Bopp comet.
Sheriff's deputies said today that they knew of no other link between the man, Robert L. Nichols, and the 39 cult members who committed mass suicide last week in the affluent San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe.
Mr. Nichols, whose body was found early Monday, worked as the caretaker of a piece of land in a remote area of Yuba County. Family members said Mr. Nichols was mostly known as a devout fan of the Grateful Dead, and had written a book about one of the rock-and-roll band's more famous road trips, ''Truckin' With the Grateful Dead to Egypt...''" The full article is here.
The book is long out of print but some Amazon sellers are offering it up....It is an odd little curio and I would recommend that you seek it out...
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