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001 2015006631
003 DLC
005 20151121082439.0
008 150307s2015 mauaf b 001 0deng
010 $a 2015006631
020 $a9780544323520 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
020 $z9780544323537 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aF216.2$b.T45 2015
082 00 $a975$223
084 $aTRV025070$aTRV025090$aTRV025100$2bisacsh
100 1 $aTheroux, Paul,$eauthor.
245 10 $aDeep South :$bfour seasons on back roads /$cPaul Theroux ; photos by Steve McCurry.
264 1 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$c2015.
300 $a441 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"An Eamon Dolan Book"--Title page.
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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
600 10 $aTheroux, Paul$xTravel$zSouthern States.
650 0 $aScenic byways$zSouthern States.
650 0 $aSeasons$zSouthern States.
650 7 $aTRAVEL / United States / South / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aTRAVEL / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aTRAVEL / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX).$2bisacsh