Great Plains
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4.3 • 36 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
National Bestseller
Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation.
With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Frazier, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Dating Your Mom , here explores the Great Plains at random, seeking the past and embracing the present. According to PW , ``This is an engaging blend of travelogue, local color, geography and folklore.'' Photos. 100,000 first printing; author tour.
Customer Reviews
Too dark
Author is very pessimistic regarding many of the historic events of the Great Plains. I believe the author would never point his van in that direction again. Too bad