In this film he takes to the road again, on a journey without destination. Through a series of encounters and unplanned meetings, Grant finds himself guided by his own instincts and experiences meeting up with loners and. He soon found himself in a world of travellers and the culture of roadside America - existing alongside, but separate from, conventional society. American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders Publisher: Grove Pr ISBN-13: 9780802117632. When Grant moved to America he found himself surrounded by a world of travellers, people who exist alongside society as most of us know it but live separate from it, on a journey without destination. If you enjoyed any of these, you will probably enjoy Richard Grant’s Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads. When British writer Richard Grant moved to the USA more than 20 years ago it wasn't just a change of country. Anything by Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Ken Kesey or Dr Timothy Leary. For all the problems inherent in such a lifestyle, readers may still fantasize about what life could be like away from the rat race. This is a wondrous essay, documenting a style of life that eschews government authority–property taxes, drug laws, gun laws, nudity laws, truancy laws, and sexual age-of-consent laws.

Resolved to leave his own sedentary life, the author spends time with an assortment of truckers, rodeo cowboys, RV-ers, and wanna-be Indians (usually white computer geeks looking for escape). Buy a used copy of American Nomads : Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders book by Richard Grant. AMERICAN NOMADS: TRAVELS WITH LOST CONQUISTADORS, MOUNTAIN MEN, COWBOYS, INDIANS, HOBOES, TRUCKERS, AND BULLRIDERS By Richard Grant Excellent Condition. Grant, an English writer who has written for GQ and Esquire, has penned a travelogue par excellence, cloaked in the robes of a sociological examination of the American nomad.

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