Passing Through: An Existential Journey Across America's Outback

by Richard Menzies

Richard Menzies has logged a quarter of a million miles on his vintage Volkswagon bus in pursuit of pictures and unusual stories. His favorite destination is Nevada, which encloses more open public land than any other state in the lower forty-eight. "Nevada's backcountry is sparsely populated yet surprisingly rich in diversity," he writes. "Her social fabric is a colorful tapestry of cultures and ethnicities, fringed by eccentrics who simply defy categorization. Think of the Silver State as a haven for those irregular souls who could never be content with a nine-to-five job or a three bedroom, split-level in suburbia."Passing Through is a compilation of the most memorable "misfits" Menzies has encountered in the course of his peripatetic wanderings across the American Outback.

116 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Madalene · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful mostly-photo book with essays about some of the characters found in the western US, mostly in Nevada. I wish it was more fleshed out, in the tone of "Blue Highways", but it still stands alone as a picture of the remoteness and odd personalities found in rural Nevada.