Bibliograph

Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz

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Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spying on the South

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1079399605

Responsibility statement

Tony Horwitz

Sub title

an odyssey across the American divide

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"--, Provided by publisher

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