Rolling Nowhere Riding the Rails With America's Hoboes
- List Price: $18.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 09/01/2001
Description:
Riding the rails, Ted Conover tasted the life of a tramp with companions like Pistol Pete, BB, and Sheba Sheila Sheils. From them he learned survival skills -- how to "read" a freight train, scavenge for food and clothing, avoid the railroad "bulls." He was initiated ito the customs of their unique, shadowy society -- men and women bound together by a mutual bond of failure, camaraderie, and distrust.
Expand description
Sixty-five freight trains, 12,000 miles, and fifteen states later, Conover chroncicles his impressions of their lives in this fascinating piece of firsthand reporting that becomes a throughtful story of self-discovery.
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
| Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
HPB Inc.
|
Very Good
|
$7.18
|
|
HPB-Emerald
|
Very Good
|
$8.98
|
|
Ergodebooks
|
Good |
$10.38
|
Please Wait