Spying on the South
(Book on CD)
Author
Contributors
Deakins, Mark, narrator.
Published
[New York] : Penguin Random House, [2019].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (17 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual | 917.504 | Checked Out | April 24, 2024 |
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Published
[New York] : Penguin Random House, [2019].
Format
Book on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Mark Deakins.
Description
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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