Rolling Nowhere Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

Name: Rolling Nowhere Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
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ISBN: 9780375727863

ISBN-10: 0375727868

ISBN-13: 9780375727863

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ted Conover

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In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious. Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly cynical. And the narrative he creates of his…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English