Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2019.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781101980286 1101980281 |