Bad Land Vanessa de Haan And he meets his very

And he meets his very own Book - a talking thing - who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter

Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy

The eyes of the world are on the fate of General Gordon and the English-held Khartoum as it comes under siege

But with a killer on his tail

But when his case clashes head-on with the Johnny Bible killings

Bad Land Vanessa de Haan And he meets his verySeduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth while preserving the romance that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.