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Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads Hardcover – January 1, 2003

by Richard Grant (Author)
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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 mechanical bull); tells the story of the vanishing nomadic Indians and links up with 300,000 'gerito gypsies' - old people who live and travel in their RVs (Recreational Vehicles).'When all is said and done, there are two types of men: those who stay at home and those who do not' Kipling. This is the story of those that 'did not' who are populated - and are still travelling - in America.
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    January 1, 2003
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  6. ISBN-10
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    978-0316853736
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Wonderful...the people he talks to are allowed to speak for themselves, and there are many extraordinary stories...a thrilling read * THE TIMES * ....the freshest travel book on the US in a long time & one of the best short entrees to its history & culture * TLS * Fascinating . . . [Grant] brings to light a range of darkly romantic wanderers who strayed from the American mainstream while exemplifying the American Dream * OBSERVER * * 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. * --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LITTLE, BROWN (January 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 311 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316853739
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316853736
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 inches
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    Richard Grant is a British journalist, author and television presenter living in Mississippi. He is the author of four non-fiction books: American Nomads (2003), God's Middle Finger (2008), Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011), and the New York Times bestseller Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (2015). He writes articles on a wide range of subjects for magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, The Guardian, and the Telegraph magazine (UK). He is the writer and presenter of American Nomads, a documentary for the BBC based on his first book. His hobbies include hunting, floating down rivers, and drinking.

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C. Phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Kerouac!
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
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Highly recommend! If you really want to understand the American psyche, read this book! By comparison, it makes Kerouac’s novel On the Road look like the ravings of a drunken frat boy. Richard Grant, like DeToqueville has the ability to see what Americans can’t see about their own country and about themselves.
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Capitol Rock
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018
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Good Read.
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Melissa E. Humphries
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful read
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2015
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This is the third book that I read by Grant. Another travelogue that is exciting, interesting and showed me a side of my own country that I didn't know. Grant also spent a lot of time explaining historical events during the book. Grant ties it all together to keep a nice pace.
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Sheri Pool
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author. I love all his books
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018
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Great author. I love all his books.
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Craig
3.0 out of 5 stars Yellow pages because of age.
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017
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Smalll input. The book was rated very good. I think good would have been a closer evaluation. The main negative feature were the yellow pages that are through-out the book. This was because of the books age.
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Diane Rockerhousen
5.0 out of 5 stars A Brit explains Western US history.
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2015
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He melds history into his travels which makes for an informative adventure. All of his travelogues are delights to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2016
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Dorothy Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars Ghost Riders:Travels with American Nomads
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The book arrived within the stated time frame and was well packaged in a sturdy cardboard envelope which was also easy to open. The condition of the book was brand new.
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kenneth ohehir
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in Germany on September 25, 2020
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I really liked this book, its brilliant for a holiday read. Very interesting. A must read for people who like to travel and who are interested in history
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Jules
4.0 out of 5 stars A gem of a book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2019
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An alternative America vividly brought to life with some excellent descriptive writing and a host of characters from the less ordinary side of life.

Mixing history with modern travelers' tales, the author looks for a common theme between some of the great wanderers from yesteryear with current people who live outside the accustomed parallel lines of life today.

Eye opening, engagingly written, and skillfully mixing travel, history, politics and biography, this was an unexpected gem of a book.
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Spangs Come to Conquer
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant social history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2014
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A wonderfully researched and written social history, following the stories of several travellers in the american west, from different times since the europeans settled. It manages to piece these disparate tales together in a way which gives a compelling view of man's need to wander, and how this manifests itself in a similar way in different communities, from trappers to RVers. Highly recommended for anyone interested in what it is that makes us human.
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Jennie
3.0 out of 5 stars got to page 118 and gave up .disliked the author pretending to be an expert
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2019
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I bought this book after reading Stanley Stewart's Frontier of Heaven. If you've never read Stanley Stewart, he is a brilliant write and I highly recommend him. It's not surprising, therefore, that I struggled with Richard Grant's book. He is not in the same league as Stewart -not anywhere near.
Although the subject matter is interesting and I gained some insight into the native american's way of life before the White Man and at the time of his arrival, I disliked the author's pseudo-lecturer voice.
Grant has learned much of what he knows about the history of the american Indian from reading other people's research and, although there is a bibliography at the back, he does not credit anybody with their research, which he trots out page after page.
He gives no great insight, other than from research and facts uncovered by researchers and authors far better than himself.
On the back of this book, I've ordered Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Zia Book) by Cabeza de Vaca - an original account which has been translated into English.
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