And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Free Audiobook Download by William S. Burroughs,Jack Kerouac

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a 1963 novella by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and novel by Jack Kerouac.

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novella about a group of friends who have gone on safari in Africa. They are going to hunt for crocodiles and hippos, but instead they find themselves not hunting but being hunted by the infamous "Big Game Hunter" who has killed most of their party including some guides and the camp manager before they can even fire at him. This audiobook was released with a variety of voices as well as narrating by Ray Porter who also narrated Kerouac's On The Road

This is a translation from the French of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's "And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks".

The connection between Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs is a fascinating one. The revolutionary Beat Generation writers wrote about their adventures in the United States and elsewhere, but it was Kerouac who wrote extensively about his time in Mexico, where he met with Burroughs for deep discussions about the future of their generation's global revolution. In And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Kerouac describes how an early morning hijacking by Mexican police forces him to take a new approach to life that would be hard to ignore-a trip down the road of drugs and sex.

William S. Burroughs was a famous author and Beat writer, who was a major figure in the post-World War II era of American literature. His writing style is highly regarded as coming from the Beat generation movement. As much of his work came out before being published, he also became known as the "first hipster." Kerouac wrote about many things, but for these two writers, there is one thing that they are most well known for. That is their writing style, which was very different from what people were used to reading at the time. They had an ability to capture their thoughts and feelings in a way that made people want to read more.

Jack Kerouac's intensity and novelistic detail of the times are conveyed by Ray Porter. This audiobook download is available for free through Librivox.org, a non-profit audiobook archive that provides free public domain recordings of public-domain materials such as novels, short stories and audio books.