Bad Land: An American Romance
Jonathan Raban takes you on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, the Great Plains of Montana, and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the homesteaders whose dreams foundered there, and reaching through history to the present day, Bad Land uncovers the dangerous legacy of American innocence gone sour.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN-13
- 9781529038613
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- American frontier and homesteadingGreat Plains and Montana historyAmerican identity and myth
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1996)
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