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| Original Title: | Great Plains |
| ISBN: | 0312278500 (ISBN13: 9780312278502) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ian Frazier
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.96 | 2885 Users | 226 Reviews
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National BestsellerWith his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
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| Title | : | Great Plains |
| Author | : | Ian Frazier |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | May 4th 2001 by Picador USA (first published June 1st 1989) |
| Categories | : | Travel. Nonfiction. History. Adventure. Autobiography. Memoir. Environment. Nature |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 2885 Users | 226 ReviewsWrite Up Containing Books Great Plains
I should probably add a 'shelf' to my profile on here called 'Great Plains.' There's been quite a bit of Stegner going on over here, and now this. I think it feeds some sort of nostalgia...for a place I've never actually lived. I'm a city boy and can't claim the tiniest bit of even ironrange cred let alone plains cred (I was disappointed to find out from this book that Minnesota isn't even officially included in the enormous region known as the Great Plains. Too many lakes to qualify). But whenEqual parts retelling of history already well-known (e.g., Dust Bowl, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse) and personal travel narrative of an outsider (a Manhattanite who moves to Montana), I found this book shallow except in its stories of real Westerners that the author meets. By trying to be both introspective and quasi-academic, the book ends up being an unsatisfying overview of the Great Plains region. Perhaps the author should have done more homework, or dug more deeply into his experiences, to
I just returned from an 8 week cross-country road trip, part of which took me through Minnesota, Montana, and both Dakotas. This book was the perfect way to end the trip and it answered lots of the questions I had while traveling through what I formerly thought of as "flyover" states. Never again though. Frazier is brimming over with what in my family we call UBIs (useless bits of information) except that in his case though many of them may indeed be useless they are nevertheless fascinating. If
Great Plains is a cross between Kathleen Norris' "Dakota" and William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways." It's a road book about the high plains -- that semi-arid, often treeless region covering 10 states lying between the Rockies and the Mid-West. Rather than a day-by-day log of a single journey, it is an account of many trips, as its author criss-crosses the terrain, jumping from place to place and from one historical period to another. When you are done, you have a sense of a vast land and a
This was a breezy, sweeping crash course on America's Great Plains and much of the West; equal parts travelogue and history with a vividly conveyed sense of place, spiced with historical tidbits and humorously imparted facts of the weird. It's kind of like a bunch of digestible NPR commentaries strung together. Frazier does it with ease, and not in any particular order -- somehow running the gamut from Sitting Bull and Bonnie & Clyde to Lawrence Welk; from arrowheads to barbed wire; from
It's hard not to be caught up in Frazier's somber and lyrical meditation on the great plains. Frazier weaves together stories from his own travels with historical anecdotes in such a way that by the end, it seems as though he has given us a taste of most of the significant historical and cultural landmarks of the plains and allowed us to see the connections running between all of them. I'm sure that he overlooked some things and took some controversial positions, but to achieve this effect in
I found this in the history section of a great used bookstore in Chicago, Myopic Books, and I thought it was very fortuitous because I remember wanting to read more Frazier after Travels in Siberia, and also a book about the plains seems like an appropriate buy on a Chicago trip. I really liked it. You know how sometimes you want to just chuck it all and move to Montana and live in a cabin and drive around the plains and write a book about the beating heart of America? Well, Frazier already did
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