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Title: American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders by Richard Grant ISBN: 0-8021-1763-5 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: hit the road for a wild and fascinating ride
Comment: I loved this book. If you've ever hit the road or had the urge to do it. If you've ever stuck out your thumb to discover the dizzying range of people and places in the great American West or had the urge to do it. If you liked Krakauer's "Into The Wild," GET THIS BOOK. It kicks ass. With an outsider's perceptive eye, Grant weaves his personal Western travels together with fascinating historical accounts and introduces us to a gritty, crazy patchwork of unique American characters that bring the complexity, inspiration, and delusion of America's Western dreams to life. Like Merle Haggard sings: White Line Fever. Catch it.
Rating: 3
Summary: From the East End to the Southwest
Comment: The best parts of American Nomads are the prologue and the final chapter. In between is an uneven collection of historical pieces and contemporary character profiles.
In the prologue, Richard Grant, an Englishman who grew up in London, tells how he traveled as a child and as an adult to sunny spots all over the world. Consequently, when he found himself spending yet another depressing winter in dreary, damp London, he scraped together enough money for a ticket to the U.S. He hooked up with east coast friends and they made a road trip to Los Angeles, but Grant wasn't through with the road yet. He traveled up the California coast, then to New Orleans, and when he ran out of money, he lived in his car in a parking lot at a motel and spent his days by the motel pool, writing letters home.
The recipients of these letters encouraged him to write for publication and he did. When he had enough money, he'd return to the U.S., then home to London when the money ran out, to write some more stories and articles. Then back to America. Finally he was making enough from writing that he didn't have to return to London.
Grant writes of the American Southwest, its history, people he meets, things he sees. A lot of his narrative is gritty, because the desert is like that, as are the people who settle there.
He winds up these travel essays with a chapter on the RVers who congregate in Quartzsite, Arizona every year. Thousands of mostly retired people in their motor homes and trailers gather in a gigantic ghetto in the middle of nowhere. Grant observes and comments.
Rating: 2
Summary: Mostly immature bragging
Comment: There were several very good chapters about the early explorers and fur traders. But for the most part, these were overshadowed by the rest of the book which contained mostly bragging about how stupid people can really act and get away with it. The chapters about the dope-head rainbow people, the drunk bull riders and the whore chasing RVers were totally one sided and mostly unnecessary for such a book. It seemed like Grant was just using these stores as a springboard for telling his own life story about what he likes and dislikes and how much beer he can drink. Some good, mostly BORING.
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Title: Blue Highways : A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon, William Least Heat-Moon ISBN: 0316353299 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 19 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Cabeza De Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Zia Book) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Cabeza De Vaca, Cyclone Covey, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ISBN: 082630656X Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: March, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Walking to Vermont : From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure by Christopher S. Wren ISBN: 0743251520 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild by Chip Brown ISBN: 1573222364 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia by Michael I. Niman ISBN: 0870499890 Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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