southern states

"An essential . . . journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--Provided by publisher.

"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, [the author] followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted calledthe Cotton Kingdom"--Provided by publisher.

"The famed naturalist hiked through the rural American South in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the Spanish moss, plamettos, magnolias, and other botanical wonders he encountered along the way"--OCLC.

Chronicles the experiences John Muir had in 1867 when he walked from Indiana, across the southeastern United States to the Gulf coast.

Presents an examination of the work of Zora Neale Hurston, and describes how Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction paint a picture of the rural African-American South.

Historian Scott Nelson introduces children to the life of the real John Henry, drawing on songs, poems, and stories to describe the man behind the legendary African-American hero.

A memoir in which the author describes the places he went, food he ate, and people he met while traveling with his wife and dog aboard an English narrowboat on a nine-month voyage down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Tony Horwitz, a former war correspondent, tells of his journeys to Civil War battlefields and the colorful people he meets along the way.

Tony Horwitz, a former war correspondent, tells of his journeys to Civil War battlefields and the colorful people he meets along the way.