The Resource 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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The item Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 9 library branches.
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide
- Title
- Spying on the South
- Title remainder
- an odyssey across the American divide
- Statement of responsibility
- Tony Horwitz
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10776045
- Cataloging source
- NcU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Horwitz, Tony
- Dewey number
- 917.504
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F213
- LC item number
- .H768 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Horwitz, Tony
- Southern States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- an odyssey across the American divide
- Label
- Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2018056912
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 476 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101980286
- Lccn
- 2018056912
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079399605
- Label
- Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2018056912
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 476 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101980286
- Lccn
- 2018056912
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079399605
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