[bksvol-discuss] American Nomads
- From: elcoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
Hey all,
I just submitted the book American Nomads by Richard Grant. I found it
fascinating, so you should validate it and read it too...or not,
whatever you choose. Anyway, it's there, and here's a description of
it from the back cover:
FINALIST FOR THE 2004 THOMAS COOK TRAVEL LITERATURE AWARD CHOSEN AS A
READING SELECTION BY THE DETROIT FREE PRESS BOOK CLUB American Nomads
traces the history of wandering in the New World, through vividly told
stories of frontiersmen, fur trappers, cowboys, Comanche and Apache
warriors, all the way back to the first Spanish explorers, like Cabeza
de Vaca, who crossed the continent in the sixteenth century. What
unites these disparate characters is a stubborn conviction that the
only true freedom is to roam across the land. As an outsider aching for
the "balm of motion," Grant uses these lives and his own to examine the
myths and realities of the wandering life, and its contradiction with
the sedentary American dream.
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