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Spying on the South - An Odyssey Across the American Divide (Paperback)
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Spying on the South - An Odyssey Across the American Divide (Paperback)
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List price R522
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Discovery Miles 4 930
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The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved,
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the
South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns
to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the
trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the
young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and
dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary
journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the
up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name
"Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted
traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach,
seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the
lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his
day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American
landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating
democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park
and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape
architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the
discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one
country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz
follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including
muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into
bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican
borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers
bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom.
Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized
American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great
Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the
Attic.
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