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Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
Richard Grant
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Description for Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
Paperback. "Ghost Riders" combines history, travelogue and a revealing personal narrative to create a multi-dimensional map of the travelling soul. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
Richard Grant has never spent more than twenty-two consecutive nights under the same roof. Motivated partly by his own wanderlust and partly by his realisation that America is a land populated by wanderers, he set out to test his theory. AMERICAN NOMADS is the extraordinary result. 'Freedom is impossible and meaningless within the confines of sedentary society, the only true freedom is the freedom to cross the land, beholden to no one'. Grant follows the trails of the first European to wander across the American West (a failed conquistador); joins a group of rodeo-competing cowboys (and gets thrown by a ... Read more
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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349112688
SKU
V9780349112688
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99-10
About Richard Grant
Richard Grant has written extensively for the GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, GQ, the OBSERVER etc.
Reviews for Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
Erudite & street-smart... that rare thing: a travel writer who not only amuses & informs but also reappraises a well trodden landscape with brio & originality
MAIL ON S.
Fascinating . . . [Grant] brings to light a range of darkly romantic wanderers who strayed from the American mainstream while exemplifying the American Dream
OBSERVER
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MAIL ON S.
Fascinating . . . [Grant] brings to light a range of darkly romantic wanderers who strayed from the American mainstream while exemplifying the American Dream
OBSERVER
... Read more