![]() ![]() I literally could smell America that's close he brought me to it. (There are around 3 million travellers in the largest group of American nomads, roaming the country in motorhomes and UVR's) Grant himself spent many years travelling across 6000 miles of America, and it shows. ![]() It provides us with an insight into American communities and cultures that are often absent from the Hollywood and television networks presentation of America. Grant's book is a truly mind expanding experience. The book lifts the lid on the stereotypes and humanises these people that the mainstream media often demonise. We meet travellers, hitchhikers, cowboys, trainhoppers, mountain men and hobos. It focuses on those Americans who have rejected the conventional way of living, they have renounced mortgages and offices jobs to become free spirits. The book explores all the sub-cultures that exist in the South of the United States of America. ![]() (Author of Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads and documentary maker Richard Grant) That summer was a particularly bad one for me and this book provided a source of escape from the hell of it all. However, it wasn't until the summer of 2005 that I eventually got round to reading it. It featured one of those iconic American Silver Bullet caravans pitched in a vast desert expanse. The front cover grabbed my attention immediately. In 2003 I purchased a book called Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads, authored by Richard Grant. ![]()
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