Dispatches from Pluto av Richard Grant

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<b>In <i>Dispatches from Pluto</i>, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.</b><BR><BR>Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. <i>Dispatches from Pluto</i>—winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize—is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine <i>A Year In Provence</i> with alligators and assassins, or <i>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</i> with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining.<BR><BR>On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters&#82