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Horwitz, Tony,
1958-2019,.
Spying on the South :
an odyssey across the American divide /
Tony Horwitz.
New York :
Penguin Press,
2019.
476 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
25 cm.
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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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Olmsted, Frederick Law
1822-1903
Travel
Southern States.
Horwitz, Tony
1958-
Travel
Southern States.
Southern States
Description and travel.