Spying on the South An Odyssey Across the American Divide

Tony Horwitz, Mark Deakins

eAudio - 2019

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...

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Books on Tape
Language
English
Main Authors
Tony Horwitz, Mark Deakins
Online Access
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size495 GB
Parts14
ISBN9781984888662
Release Date5/14/2019
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size495 GB
ISBN9781984888662
Release Date5/14/2019