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  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Bellezza e squallore ai margini dell'America

    von Ted Conover
    Serien Buch 1 - This Land
    A maggio del 2017 Ted Conover, vincitore del National Book Critics Circle Award per la non-fiction e finalista al premio Pulitzer, si dirige in Colorado per abbracciare uno stile di vita rurale imperniato su due princìpi: vivere con poco e farlo sulla propria terra. Del resto, nella San Luis Valley tutto questo è ancora possibile: un lotto da cinque acri si può acquistare ad appena cinquemila Lesen Sie mehr

    9,99 €

  • Immersion

    A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

    von Ted Conover
    Serien series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting.In immersion reporting—a literary Lesen Sie mehr

    13,69 €

  • The Routes of Man

    How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today

    von Ted Conover
    From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack*,* an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears Lesen Sie mehr

    5,75 €

  • Newjack

    A Year as a Prison Guard in New York's Most Infamous Maximum Security Jail

    von Ted Conover
    After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often violent world of America's penal system.Unarmed and outnumbered, prison officers at one of America's toughest maximum security jails Lesen Sie mehr

    12,99 €

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Off-Gridders at America's Edge

    von Ted Conover
    **From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services.“In these dispatches, [Conover] invites readers to ride shotgun along an unraveling edge of the Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor 11,55 € Jetzt 10,26 €

  • Whiteout: Lost In Aspen

    von Ted Conover
    WHITEOUT is Ted Conover's classic report on life among the wealthy and the narcissistic–as well as some real people–in Aspen, Colorado. Former Hugh Hefner paramour and Playboy executive Barbi Benton holds her annual pajama party. Celebrity photographer Annie Liebovitz actually finds someone who doesn't want his picture taken: Hunter Thompson. New Agers claim UFO sightings and seek eternal life. Lesen Sie mehr

    6,99 €

  • El guàrdia de Sing Sing

    von Ted Conover
    Übersetzt von Octavi Gil Pujol
    Serien Buch 7 - Contrastos
    La famosa presó de Sing Sing havia estat un centre modèlic, però s'ha convertit en un dels més problemàtics de l'estat de Nova York. El periodista Ted Conover s'hi infiltra per treballar-hi d'agent de galeria. Ara podrà conèixer de prop la vida de desenes i desenes de delinqüents violents, extremament perillosos. Aviat constata la impossibilitat de fer la seva feina seguint el manual, i a poc a Lesen Sie mehr

    9,99 €

  • Là où la terre ne vaut rien

    von Ted Conover
    Serien series Feuilleton non Fiction
    En mai 2017, Ted Conover se rend dans la vallée de San Luis (Colorado) afin d'étudier un mode de vie particulier qui consiste à vivre de peu, et à se tenir à l'écart des courants dominants. Les lotissements de l'énorme vallée rendent cela possible. Des terrains de cinq hectares dans la plaine peuvent être achetés pour cinq mille dollars, parfois moins.Après une première exploration l'auteur Lesen Sie mehr

    16,99 €

  • The Sparkling-Eyed Boy

    A Memoir of Love, Grown Up

    von Amy Benson
    A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make—"built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have" ( USA Today).Exploring the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire, this work of creative nonfiction—a Bakeless Prize winner—re-creates the achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparkling-eyed boy spent together on the Lesen Sie mehr

    11,22 €

  • Rolling Nowhere

    von Ted Conover
    Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Lesen Sie mehr

    6,99 €

  • Fifty Years in Sing Sing

    A Personal Account, 1879-1929

    von Alfred Conyes
    Serien series Excelsior Editions
    A fascinating personal account of life at this infamous prison during a bygone era.Written more than eighty years ago, Fifty Years in Sing Sing is the personal account of Alfred Conyes (1852–1931), who worked as a prison guard and then keeper at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, from 1879 to 1929. This unpublished memoir, dated 1930, was found among his granddaughter's estate by his great Lesen Sie mehr

    17,54 €

  • Levez le pied

    La vie ne se perd qu'une fois

    von Ted Conover
    Ted Conover fait le récit des quelques semaines qu'il a passées à Lagos avec une équipe d'ambulanciers. De ce poste d'observation privilégié, il essaie de comprendre ce qui se joue sur les grands axes de communication qui traversent la mégalopole. La route concentre tous les enjeux : petits business, luttes de pouvoir, violence, précarité. Lesen Sie mehr

    3,00 €