Bad Land: An American Romance
#362 of 3,809 books · #130 in History
Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1996).
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.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-13
- 9781529038613
- Genre
- 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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