Jonathan Raban takes the reader on an enthralling journey into the least populated & least known region in the United States, Montana, & finds there the heart & soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie & the homesteaders whose dreams foundered there, & reaching forward through history to the present day, Bad Land uncovers the dangerous legacy of American innocence gone sour. ` Bad Land should be recognized as a blazing classic` Sunday Telegraph