ARGONAUT BOOKS

Jonathan Raban's echnating history of the Great Plains of America, charting the untold story of the land and the ravages of the Great Depression. Reviews Raban's journey, made through empty landscapes that once brimmed with optimism, reveals what happens when American innocence begins to curdle. The tale, borne along by its superlative writing, is a riveting oneObserverA blazing classicSunday TelegraphThere is a temperateness, a patience, here that makes Bad Land quite unlike anything else that Mr Raban has written . . . an affectionate reasonableness about this perplexing n...Read More