Bad Land An American Romance

Raban, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0679442545 / ISBN 13: 9780679442547

Editore: Pantheon, 1996

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Riassunto:

"When Dad came out here, he had twenty-five dollars, a wagon, and a mule." So begins the stories of countless homesteaders who, in the first decades of this century, seized an astounding government offer: three hundred and twenty free acres in the stark, dry Plains of Montana and the Dakotas. Seduced by the promises from railroad companies, by liberal credit from bankers, and by scientific claims about dry-land farming; seduced, above all, by the prospect of a new life in the New World, Americans and Europeans came determined to put down roots and prosper.

Informazioni sull?autore: Jonathan Raban is the author of Soft City, Arabia, Old Glory, Foreign Land, For Love and Money, Coasting, and Hunting Mr. Heartbreak. He won the W.H. Heinemann Award for Literature in 1982 and the Thomas Cook Award in 1981 and 1991. He has also edited the Oxford Book of the Sea. He lives in Seattle.

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Titolo: Bad Land An American Romance
Casa editrice: Pantheon
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good