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Pros
Richard grant, a brit. Grant explores all kinds of different groups, from hippies to cowboys to rail riders to tramps.
An entertaining, educational read with a spicy flavor of prose. Entertaining, informative and well written. An enjoyable book written by a true wordsmith.
Johnrieber's amazing command of language makes the stories come to life in the most vibrant possible way. The ending is a very important part of the book, tying the personal story and the various vignettes together. There's a good bibliography if you ... Read More
Cons
The author pretends that while he ties his wanderlust to the long tradition of wandering in the american west that he is participating. The skeletal bibliography tries to lend legitimacy to the text but the book still reads like a diary. At the end, w... Read More
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Quality
I love the way richard grant views everyone on his journey with the same amounts of empathy compassion and humour
The characters towards the end also start to decrease in quality and interest
One thing i didnt quite get was his statement at the end where he equated the founding of the major religions by desert wandere... Read More
He fell in love with the wideopen spaces and endless road of the american west and began a life of rambling all over the west at will
Competitiveness
Grant gives these people names and shows a bit of their desperation as well as their triumph in living a life of freedom in the... Read More
And rving adventures all of sharlene minshalls very fun books
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- This product had a total of 80 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 31 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Those who never left it and became nomads of the roadgreat read from a pom prisoner of mother england whosancestors have been wandering the world for generations
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This felt like the good the bad and the ugly were were explored
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Grants tales kept me up late into the nights unwilling to get off the road with him
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
His books are well written funny insightful and full of unbelievably dangerous situations
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book is basically a series of unrelated stories tied together by the fact that they all deal with nomads
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If youre interested in this kind of thing the hobo explorer minimalist hit the road and dont look back kind of thing that is id really reccomend this book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
He ponders on how so many of the nomads that he meets in the west tend to be societies walking wounded and notes the hardships and misunderstandings of being a nomad in a largely sedentary culture
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Read gods middle finger about the mexico sierra madre next youll become a true richard grant follower
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