Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

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'Who among us has not felt his heart beat a little faster at the sight of a plane soaring into a wide blue sky, or admired the fellow who tears up the gas bills ...In this engaging and finely written book, Richard Grant, a restless Englishman and something of an itinerant himself seeks out the wanderers, the rootless, the "legion of drifters, grifters, hoboes and tramps". Grant traces their historical antecedents (the ghosts of the title are the nomadic horsemen of the American West) and ponders what drives a man to spend his life in motion ...He is a first-class writer ...I enjoyed this book immensely' Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph

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'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. 'Fascinating ... [Grant] brings to light a range of darkly romantic wanderers who strayed from the American mainstream while exemplifying the American Dream' OBSERVER '...the freshest travel book on the US in a long time & one of the best short entrees to its history & culture' TLS

Author Bio

Richard Grant has written extensively for the GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, GQ, the OBSERVER etc.