Spying on the South : An Odyssey Across the American Divide, Paperback by Hor...

Description: Spying on the South : An Odyssey Across the American Divide, Paperback by Horwitz, Tony, ISBN 1101980303, ISBN-13 9781101980309, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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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Book Title: Spying on the South : an Odyssey Across the American Divide

Number of Pages: 512 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2020

Item Height: 1 in

Topic: Slavery, United States / South / General, Landscape, United States / 19th Century

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Travel, Architecture, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 14 Oz

Item Length: 8.4 in

Author: Tony Horwitz

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback