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020 _a9780544323520 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
020 _z9780544323537 (ebook)
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100 1 _aTheroux, Paul,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDeep South :
_bfour seasons on back roads /
_cPaul Theroux ; [Photographs copyright © Steve McCurry.]
264 1 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,
_c2015.
300 _a441 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color) ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _a"An Eamon Dolan Book"--Title page.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 2 _a"One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation.' He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families--the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. From the writer whose 'great mission has always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself--and thus, to challenge us' (Boston Globe), Deep South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aTheroux, Paul
_xTravel
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aScenic byways
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aSeasons
_zSouthern States.
650 7 _aTRAVEL / United States / South / General.
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650 7 _aTRAVEL / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV).
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650 7 _aTRAVEL / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX).
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651 0 _aSouthern States
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_vBiography.
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