Author
Perry, Imani, 1972- author.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Published
2022
Language
English
Summary
"An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Horwitz, Tony, 1958- author.
Format
Book
Published
2019
Language
English
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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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Waters, Don.
Format
Book
Published
1939
Language
English
Summary
Much of the time the Waters family made their home on their ketch, but between times they explored inland waterways. This is the story of those explorations which took them all through the interior waterways of Florida, Georgia, Louisian bayous, and the rivers that feed into the Tennessee.
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Ellis, Jerry.
Format
Book
Published
1991
Language
English
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Fishman, Gail.
Format
Book
Published
2000
Language
English
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Bartram, William, 1739-1823.
Format
Book
Edition
Naturalist's ed.
Published
1958
Language
English
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Theroux, Paul, author.
Format
Book
Published
2015
Language
English
Summary
"One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation.' He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families--the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. From the writer whose 'great mission has always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself--and thus, to challenge us' (Boston Globe), Deep South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike"--
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Schlessinger, Andrew.
Format
Video disc
Published
2004
Language
English
Summary
Join nine-year-old Miguel on his adventure across the United States. Explore the southeast, including the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Learn about the foods and music of the region.
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
Author
Hunt, James B., 1943-
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Published
2012
Language
English
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
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