{"product_id":"same-ground-russell-wangersky-9781770416543","title":"Same Ground: Chasing Family Down the California Gold Rush Trail","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Read him.\" -- George Elliott Clarke, author of \u003ci\u003eI \u0026amp; I\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGeorge and Rue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWangersky's great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of gold in 1849. William Castle Dodge was his name, and he was 22 years old. He wrote a diary of that eventful journey that comes into the author's hands 160 years later. And typically, quixotically, Wangersky decides to follow Dodge's westward trail across the great bulging middle of America, not in search of gold but something even less likely: that elusive thing called family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat ensues becomes this story, by turns hilarious and profound, about a very long trip -- by car, in Wangersky's case, and on mule and foot in Dodge's. Interweaving his experiences on the road with Dodge's diary, the author contemplates the human need to hunt for roots and meaning as he -- and Dodge -- encounter immigrants who risk everything to be somewhere else, while only glimpsing those who are there already and who want to hold onto their claim in the stream of human migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSame Ground\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about what time washes away and what persists -- and what we might find, unexpectedly, if we go looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Russell Wangersky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1770416544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770416543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.58w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/27\/2022","brand":"Russell Wangersky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069192794367,"sku":"9781770416543","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dfca1ed-deb6-4691-b6b0-46a304a247d8.jpg?v=1685423337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/same-ground-russell-wangersky-9781770416543","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}