Deep South : four seasons on back roads

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Label

Deep South : four seasons on back roads

Title remainder

four seasons on back roads

Statement of responsibility

Paul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry

Creator

• Theroux, Paul

Author

• Theroux, Paul

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

Genre

• Travel writing
• Biography
• Biographies

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"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

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