Bad Land: An American Romance
Jonathan Raban / Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (364p) ISBN 9
This account of the author's travels through homesteaded Montana won the NBCC nonfiction prize. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/07/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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