Bad Land; Author: Raban, Jonathan; Hardback; Book

Author: Raban, Jonathan
Hardback; Book; Map
336 pages
Published: October 1996
Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330346210
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More than a travel book. In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads, which he realised held fragments of former lives, and gave clues to the men and women who took the train West in search of new lives and a permanent agricultural community.In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters of the people who took the train West in the early 20th century in search of new lives. This is their story.