Around the World in 22 Books
Ghost Riders - Travels with American
Nomads by Richard Grant
First published in 2003.
This edition by Abacus.
Richard Grant, a restless Englishman and something of an itinerant himself
seeks out the wanderers, the rootless, the "legion of drifters, grifters,
hoboes and tramps". Grant traces their historical antecedents (the
ghosts of the title are the nomadic horsemen of the American West) and
ponders what drives a man to spend his life in motion.
