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BAD LAND

BAD LAND

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作者: Jonathan Raban 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2012-01

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780679759065

定价: 138.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 364页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

　　A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of theYear

  Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award

  Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award

  "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land andsky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. "

  --Washington Post Book World

  In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the GreatAmerican Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily byrailroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone boldor foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelesslyinventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of themimmigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In BadLand, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country thatwas the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their storycome miraculously alive.

  In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its nameto Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in thelandscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of Americanhistory, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its ownhopeful myths and bitter memories. Startlingly observed,beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of theAmerican West.

  "Exceptional. . . . A beautifully told historical meditation."

  --Time

  "Championship prose. . . . In fifty years don't besurprised if Bad Land is a landmark."

  --Los Angeles Times
内容简介:
　　A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of theYear

  Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award

  Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award

  "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land andsky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. "

  --Washington Post Book World

  In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the GreatAmerican Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily byrailroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone boldor foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelesslyinventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of themimmigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In BadLand, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country thatwas the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their storycome miraculously alive.

  In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its nameto Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in thelandscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of Americanhistory, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its ownhopeful myths and bitter memories. Startlingly observed,beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of theAmerican West.

  "Exceptional. . . . A beautifully told historical meditation."

  --Time

  "Championship prose. . . . In fifty years don't besurprised if Bad Land is a landmark."

  --Los Angeles Times

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