Dispatches from pluto : lost and found in the mississippi delta: 9781476709642

from santhony

This is a fantastic book and I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in race relations in general, and in the Delta region in particular. The author is British and has worked as a freelance writer, traveling throughout the world. After settling in New York City for a period, and becoming...

from zmagic69

I bought this book based on the title and the description, alone. It wasn't until I started reading it that I realized the author wrote two of my absolute favorite travel books, "Gods Middle Finger" and "Crazy River". This book is excellent as well. Dispatches From Pluto is about the author, a li...

from Stbalbach

This is really fantastic. Richard Grant's best travel/journalism book to date. This part of the country is tied up in a lot of negatives for good reason - poverty, racism, corruption, violence. But it's also strong community, tradition and, well, good times. What makes this more than a good book ...

from mchwest

Basically, really good read. If you want to learn more of the South, from a different perspective, a Brits, then this is the book for you. I learned so much about the instilled culture that is still alive there, and the reason its people leave and more important, the reason they stay! I would lov...

from froxgirl

The premise here, that stereotypes about Southerners are worthy of investigation, is a big leap for a Brit living in NYC. But Richard and his fifteen years younger American wife, worn to a nub by the city's expenses and lack of space, decide to take a friend's offer and buy a house in Pluto, a ha...