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  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Bellezza e squallore ai margini dell'America

    af Ted Conover ...
    Serier Bog 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 ... Læs mere

    94,25 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Whiteout: Lost In Aspen

    af 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. ... Læs mere

    50,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Immersion

    A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

    af Ted Conover ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Newjack

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

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    112,61 kr.

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Off-Gridders at America's Edge

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    103,36 kr.

  • Rolling Nowhere

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    50,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants

    af Ted Conover ...
    In this classic tale of life among undocumented migrants, Ted Conover, author of Newjack, immerses himself in a world few Americans ever see and fewer still come to know. He gets himself smuggled across the border, works on citrus ranches, accompanies workers to industrial L.A., Phoenix, Florida, and Idaho, and travels deep into Mexico to understand the poverty that begins the whole cycle. He ... Læs mere

    50,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • El guàrdia de Sing Sing

    af Ted Conover ...
    Oversat af Octavi Gil Pujol ...
    Serier Bog 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 ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Sparkling-Eyed Boy

    A Memoir of Love, Grown Up

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Routes of Man

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

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    50,15 kr.

  • Fifty Years in Sing Sing

    A Personal Account, 1879-1929

    af Alfred Conyes ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    156,81 kr.

  • Levez le pied

    La vie ne se perd qu'une fois

    af 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. ... Læs mere

    22,42 kr.