Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide / Tony Horwitz.
Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide / Tony Horwitz.
Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide / Tony Horwitz.
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Publisher
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
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G 2019/5511
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
American nomad -- Yeoman Olmsted: "An enthusiast by nature" -- Over the Alleghenies: gateway to the Rust Belt -- Ohio River: mutants making tow -- Kentucky: "A balance sheet of good against evil" -- To Tennessee and back: a thorough aristocrat -- Mississippi River: Steamboat blues -- Lower Mississip...
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Publisher
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"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 c...
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Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide / Tony Horwitz.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-462) and index.
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G 2019/5511
Record Identifier
74VKa27zxwjO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa27zxwjO
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ISBN
9781101980286 (hardcover)
1101980281
DDC
917.504
MMS ID
991024275514302626
