The Resource Deep South : four seasons on back roads, Paul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry
Deep South : four seasons on back roads, Paul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 441 pages
- Note
- "An Eamon Dolan Book"--Title page
- Contents
-
- Fall : "You gotta be going there to get there"
- Interlude : the taboo word
- Winter : "Ones born today don't know how it was"
- Interlude : the paradoxes of Faulkner
- Spring : redbud in bloom
- Interlude : the fantastications of Southern fiction
- Summer : the odor of sun-heated roads
- Isbn
- 9780544323520
- Label
- Deep South : four seasons on back roads
- Title
- Deep South
- Title remainder
- four seasons on back roads
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry
- Subject
-
- Scenic byways
- Scenic byways -- Southern States
- Seasons
- Seasons -- Southern States
- Social conditions
- Southern States
- Southern States -- Biography
- Southern States -- Description and travel
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Southern States -- Social life and customs
- Biographies
- TRAVEL / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
- TRAVEL / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
- Theroux, Paul
- Theroux, Paul -- Travel -- Southern States
- Travel
- Travel writing
- TRAVEL / United States / South / General
- Manners and customs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Theroux, Paul
- Dewey number
- 975
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F216.2
- LC item number
- .T45 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Theroux, Paul
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Scenic byways
- Seasons
- Theroux, Paul
- TRAVEL / United States / South / General
- TRAVEL / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
- TRAVEL / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
- Manners and customs
- Scenic byways
- Seasons
- Social conditions
- Travel
- Southern States
- Label
- Deep South : four seasons on back roads, Paul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry
- Note
- "An Eamon Dolan Book"--Title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Fall : "You gotta be going there to get there" -- Interlude : the taboo word -- Winter : "Ones born today don't know how it was" -- Interlude : the paradoxes of Faulkner -- Spring : redbud in bloom -- Interlude : the fantastications of Southern fiction -- Summer : the odor of sun-heated roads
- Control code
- 904755965
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 441 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544323520
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2015006631
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904755965
- Label
- Deep South : four seasons on back roads, Paul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry
- Note
- "An Eamon Dolan Book"--Title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Fall : "You gotta be going there to get there" -- Interlude : the taboo word -- Winter : "Ones born today don't know how it was" -- Interlude : the paradoxes of Faulkner -- Spring : redbud in bloom -- Interlude : the fantastications of Southern fiction -- Summer : the odor of sun-heated roads
- Control code
- 904755965
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 441 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544323520
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2015006631
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904755965
Subject
- Scenic byways
- Scenic byways -- Southern States
- Seasons
- Seasons -- Southern States
- Social conditions
- Southern States
- Southern States -- Biography
- Southern States -- Description and travel
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Southern States -- Social life and customs
- Biographies
- TRAVEL / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
- TRAVEL / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
- Theroux, Paul
- Theroux, Paul -- Travel -- Southern States
- Travel
- Travel writing
- TRAVEL / United States / South / General
- Manners and customs
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