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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The Tiger
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Among the Thugs
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Toujours Provence
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French Lessons
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Bury Me Standing
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Encore Provence
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One for the Road
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The Good Rain
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The Road from Coorain
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The Lady and the Monk
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Travels
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
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Passage to Juneau
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Goodbye to a River
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Driving Over Lemons
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The Best of Outside
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The Ends of the Earth
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Coyotes
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Orchid Fever
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The River's Tale
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Eastward to Tartary
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The Nile
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Lasso the Wind
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Provence A-Z
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Falling Off the Map
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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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Skyfaring
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On Persephone's Island
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Iron and Silk
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A Beginner's Guide to Japan
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Surrender or Starve
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Hong Kong
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Into the Heart of Borneo
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A Tuscan Childhood
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Sahara Unveiled
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Bayou Farewell
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In Trouble Again
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Old Glory
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India in Mind
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Tokyo Underworld
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Dinner with Persephone
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Savages
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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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