15 Inspiring Travel Books You Have to Read
| January 15, 2016
Bad Land: An American Romance, by Jonathan Raban (1996)
The United States is more than just the comforts of Applebee’s and Walmart. In the center of the country’s continental stretch are barren lands such as the Dakotas and eastern Montana that are rarely covered in literary works but deserve nods for the rugged beauty of their people and terrain. Raban evokes curiosity to travel to those places lost between the interstate highways.
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