Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes Paperback - 2001
by Ted Conover
In Conover's first book, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few would choose to enter. 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.
First line
I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds.
From the jacket flap
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 travels with them is unforgettable and moving.
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- Title Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- Author Ted Conover
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-09-11
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780375727863 / 0375727868
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.31 x 4.89 x 0.65 in (21.11 x 12.42 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Anthropologists - United States, Conover, Ted
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001045483
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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