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Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide / Tony Horwitz

By:

Horowitz, Tony, (1958-2019)

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 476 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781101980286

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

917.504 HOR

LOC classification:

F213 .H768 2019

Summary: 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	917.504 HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025768

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-462) and index.

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.

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