Bad Land
Author: Jonathan RabanPublisher: PicadorCategory: History Of The Americas, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Social & Cultural History, Travel WritingBook Format: PaperbackJonathan Raban takes the reader on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, Montana, and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the homesteaders whose dreams foundered there, and reaching forward through history to the present day, Bad Land uncovers the dangerous legacy of American innocence gone sour.
'Bad Land should be recognized as a blazing classic' Sunday Telegraph
Jonathan Raban is the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.
In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.
About Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land , Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City and the novels Foreign Land (1985) and Waxwings (2003). His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta , Harpers, the New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, and other magazines. In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.(BK-9780330346221)
SKU | BK-9780330346221 |
Barcode # | 9780330346221 |
Brand | Picador |
Artist / Author | Jonathan Raban |
Shipping Weight | 0.2200kg |
Shipping Width | 0.130m |
Shipping Height | 0.020m |
Shipping Length | 0.190m |
Assembled Length | 12.800m |
Assembled Height | 19.200m |
Assembled Width | 2.200m |
Type | Paperback |
Be The First To Review This Product!
Help other Augoods users shop smarter by writing reviews for products you have purchased.