Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover
In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious.Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly cynical. And the narrative he creates of his travels with them is unforgettable and moving.
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The Lost City of Z
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A Year in Provence
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Tracks
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Toujours Provence
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French Lessons
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Bury Me Standing
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The Road from Coorain
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The Lady and the Monk
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Encore Provence
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Travels
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One for the Road
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Passage to Juneau
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Driving Over Lemons
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The Ends of the Earth
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Coyotes
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The Best of Outside
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The River's Tale
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Eastward to Tartary
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Bad Land
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In an Antique Land
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The Global Soul
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On Persephone's Island
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The Nile
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Surrender or Starve
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A Tuscan Childhood
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Iron and Silk
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Falling Off the Map
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In Trouble Again
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Into the Heart of Borneo
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Tokyo Underworld
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Dinner with Persephone
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Sahara Unveiled
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India in Mind
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Hong Kong
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Road Fever
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Soldiers of God
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Red-Tails in Love
Ted Conover is the author of several books including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375727863 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375727868 |
| Title | Rolling Nowhere |
| Author | Ted Conover |
| Series | Vintage Departures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2001-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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