Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide

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Label

Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide

Title remainder

an odyssey across the American divide

Statement of responsibility

Tony Horwitz

Creator

• Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019

Subject

• Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019 -- Travel -- Southern States
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 -- Travel -- Southern States
• Southern States -- Description and travel

Language

eng

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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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

NcU/DLC

Dewey number

917.504

Illustrations

• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

F213

LC item number

.H768 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography