Ghost Riders
Travels with American Nomads
$38.69
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2004
Summary
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349112688 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349112681 |
| Author: | Richard Grant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 155mm x 22mm |
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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 *….the freshest travel book on the US in a long time & one of the best short entrees to its history & culture - TLSWonderful…the people he talks to are allowed to speak for themselves, and there are many extraordinary stories…a thrilling read - THE TIMESAbout The Author
Richard Grant
Richard Grant has written extensively for the GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, GQ, the OBSERVER, etc.
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