Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
917.504 HORWITZ
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917.504 HORWITZ
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Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
917.504 HORWITZ
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917.504 HORWITZ
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Horwitz, Tony, -- 1958- -- Travel -- Southern States
Olmsted, Frederick Law, -- 1822-1903 -- Travel -- Southern States.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, -- 1822-1903.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History
Southern States -- Description and travel.
Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Travel writing.
Voyages and travels.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, -- 1822-1903 -- Travel -- Southern States.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, -- 1822-1903.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History
Southern States -- Description and travel.
Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Travel writing.
Voyages and travels.
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Physical Desc
476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-462) and index.
Description
"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"--,Provided by publisher.