Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Author:
Published:
Penguin Publishing Group 2019
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Checked Out
Description
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 Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect.
Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.
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 Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect.
Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Details
Street Date:
05/14/2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781101980293
ASIN:
B07H6ZS1LH
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Tony Horwitz. (2019). Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tony Horwitz. 2019. Spying On the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tony Horwitz, Spying On the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. Penguin Publishing Group, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tony Horwitz. Spying On the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. Penguin Publishing Group, 2019.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 0 | 0 |
| East Hampton Public Library | 0 | 0 |
There are 5 holds on this title.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
b21328bf-479f-7d0a-1a53-6d11b2cfdbae
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Sep 13, 2019 09:53:26
Date Updated:
Dec 08, 2020 14:10:33
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 30, 2022 12:11:11
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 28, 2022 01:25:15
Last Availability Check:
Apr 22, 2024 02:46:36
Last Availability Change:
Jan 04, 2024 12:14:04
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 24, 2024 22:18:07
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/6E1/28D/23/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/6E1/28D/23/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101980293
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B07H6ZS1LH
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101980293
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Tony Horwitz
- title
- Spying on the South
- dateAdded
- 2019-09-13T10:51:00-04:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=242&titleID=4281406
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: LION: Libraries Online (CT)
- id: 1354
- sortTitle
- Spying on the South An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- crossRefId
- 4281406
- subtitle
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- id
- 6e128d23-388f-46ff-b4ed-4801223e57df
- starRating
- 3.6
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/6E1/28D/23/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/6E1/28D/23/{6E128D23-388F-46FF-B4ED-4801223E57DF}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- formats
- fileName: SpyingontheSouth_9781101980293_4281406
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 6766643
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101980293
- type: ASIN
- value: B07H6ZS1LH
- type: KoboBookID
- value: 6b4501f7-10fc-386d-866c-058ddd46c045
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 05/14/2019
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e128d23-388f-46ff-b4ed-4801223e57df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: SpyingontheSouth_9781101980293_4281406
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B07H6ZS1LH
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101980293
- type: KoboBookID
- value: 6b4501f7-10fc-386d-866c-058ddd46c045
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 05/14/2019
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e128d23-388f-46ff-b4ed-4801223e57df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: SpyingontheSouth_9781101980293_4281406
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101980293
- type: ASIN
- value: B07H6ZS1LH
- type: KoboBookID
- value: 6b4501f7-10fc-386d-866c-058ddd46c045
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 05/14/2019
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e128d23-388f-46ff-b4ed-4801223e57df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- keywords
- value: us history
- value: Travelogues
- value: South
- value: Nonfiction
- value: Father's Day
- value: american history
- value: americana
- value: Travel
- value: History
- value: Sociology
- value: father's day gift
- value: Bucket list
- value: travel books
- value: nonfiction books
- value: travel book
- value: fathers day gift
- value: history books
- value: gifts for history buffs
- value: fathers day gifts
- value: American history books
- value: father's day gifts
- value: gifts for him
- value: sociology books
- value: travel gifts
- value: history buff gifts
- value: father day gifts
- value: father day gift
- value: father gift
- value: gifts for fathers
- value: father gifts
- value: best history books 2019
- value: non fiction books best sellers for adults
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Horwitz, Tony
- name: Tony Horwitz
- imprint
- Penguin Books
- subjects
- value: History
- value: Sociology
- value: Travel
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDate
- 2019-05-14T05:00:00+01:00
- publishDateText
- 05/14/2019
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- 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... - isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Spying on the South
- fullDescription
- 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 Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect.
Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic. - sortTitle
- Spying on the South An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- crossRefId
- 4281406
- subtitle
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- popularity
- 960
- publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BPQEAAA20/products/6e128d23-388f-46ff-b4ed-4801223e57df/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 6e128d23-388f-46ff-b4ed-4801223e57df
- starRating
- 3.4
