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Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide

text Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide

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 de... Read more
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 -- ... Read more
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476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher
2019

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 917.504 HOR in Adult Non-fiction Available
Fife Lake Public Library 917.504 HOR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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