Richard Grant Poradie kníh

The narrative explores the intricate and tumultuous history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River, as seen through the perspectives of a diverse array of eccentric characters. Richard Grant's insightful examination reveals the city's rich tapestry of experiences, blending travel writing with deep historical context. The book offers a unique lens on the city's past and present, highlighting the stories that shape its identity.

In Dispatches from Pluto , adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining. On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters—blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta’s lingering racial tensions. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Yet even as he observes major structural problems, he encounters many close, loving, and interdependent relationships between black and white families—and good reasons for hope. Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. It’s lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writer’s flair for in-depth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race. It’s also a love story, as the nomadic Grant learns to settle down. He falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. Mississippi, Grant concludes, is the best-kept secret in America.

Fasziniert von den europäischen Entdeckern des 19. Jahrhunderts, lotet der Brite Richard Grant seinen eigenen weißen Fleck auf der Landkarte Ostafrikas aus: den kaum kartografierten Malagarasifluss in Tansania. Während er sein Ziel, die Gesamtbefahrung bis zur Quellregion am Tanganjikasee, nie aus den Augen verliert, gerät der Weg dorthin zu einer wahren Tour de Force. Grant erkundet das Nachtleben Sansibars, liefert sich ein Wortgefecht mit dem Exdiktator und Präsidenten Ruandas Paul Kagame und zieht in Burundi mit kongolesischen Dandys und Hutu-Gangstern um die Häuser. Eine enorm temporeiche Reportage, die Ostafrika in seiner ganzen Widersprüchlichkeit zeigt.

Wer einen Funken Verstand hat, macht einen weiten Bogen um die Sierra Madre in Mexiko. Der junge Brite Richard Grant reist mitten hindurch - trotz schießwütiger Cowboys, lauernder Banditen und gnadenloser Drogenbosse. Die Erlebnisse seines waghalsigen Trips durch das Land der Outlaws hält er in einem außergewöhnlichen Reisebericht fest - packend, informativ und ... völlig durchgeknallt.

Verslag van een reis door het noordwesten van Mexico.

: Wer einen Funken Verstand hat, macht einen weiten Bogen um die Sierra Madre in Mexiko. Der junge Brite Richard Grant reist mitten hindurch, trotz schießwütiger Cowboys, lauernder Banditen und gnadenloser Drogenbosse. Heraus kommt ein außergewöhnlicher Reisebericht – packend, lehrreich und … völlig verrückt.

For those attracted to full-page spreads of howling wolves, playful pups, and packs in fang-bared snarl, Sawtooth Wolves provides a visual spectacular. It's a spin-off from photographer Dutcher's nature film, Wolf, which he claims 200 million people have seen. Dutcher and his crew, along with text writer and project director Ballantine, observed and filmed the behavior of a pack that Dutcher raised in a 25-acre enclosure in Idaho over a six-year period. Habituated to his crew's presence, the wolves tolerated close human approach, resulting in unusually dynamic photography, especially evident in the illustrations of pack hierarchy. An entrancing entree to the world of the wolf

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