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The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression

Autor Ben Montgomery
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 sep 2018
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.

Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in the Texas sun, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary -- something to resurrect the spirit of adventure and optimism he felt he'd lost. He decided to walk around the world -- backwards.

In The Man Who Walked Backward, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery charts Plennie's backwards trek across the America that gave rise to Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, and the New Deal. With the Dust Bowl and Great Depression as a backdrop, Montgomery follows Plennie across the Atlantic through Germany, Turkey, and beyond, and details the daring physical feats, grueling hardships, comical misadventures, and hostile foreign police he encountered along the way. A remarkable and quirky slice of Americana, The Man Who Walked Backward paints a rich and vibrant portrait of a jaw-dropping period of history.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316438063
ISBN-10: 0316438065
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 126 x 200 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little, Brown Spark

Descriere

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story of a Texas man who, in 1931, set out to walk backwards around the world.