Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

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 â€” theÂ Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nationâ€™s worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. Itâ€™s these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Therouxâ€™s keen travelerâ€™s eye.Â
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On road trips spanning four seasons,Â 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 â€œthe plantation.â€ He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families â€” 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.Â
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From the writer whose â€œgreat mission has always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself â€” and thus, to challenge usâ€ (Boston Globe), Deep South is an ode toÂ a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike.
Country USA
Brand HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Manufacturer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780544323520

Country	USA
Brand	HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-09-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780544323520

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

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