One older cousin , Louise , also a direct descendant of the founder , undertook an elaborate search to uncover some devastating facts about Mrs. Duncan's family background . At an afternoon tea Mrs. Bowley described the Montgomery ...
Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with remote people and far-flung places. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a corner of America—the Deep South.
Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America - the Deep South, a paradoxical place so often ignored. Deep South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike.
Publishers Weekly, starred review As thoughtful as it is evocative, the book offers insight into a significant region and its people and customs. An epically compelling travel memoir. Kirkus Reviews, starred review "
The earBOOK Deep South: The Story of the Blues, tells the story of this moving music genre from its beginnings until today.
Stories from Tasmania Ralph Crane, Danielle Wood ... have been in Mark Twain's mind when in Following the Equator (1895) he wrote: 'it was in this paradise that the yellow liveried convicts were landed, and the Corps-bandits quartered, ...
It's a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep-and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna.
Detailing Southern literature, music, and civil rights history, this guide provides coverage from Graceland to the Grand Ole Opry to Preservation Hall. The book also includes itinerary suggestions and tips on planning and transport.
When park ranger Anna Pigeon stumbles on the corpse of a girl with a noose around her neck, she is plunged into a murder investigation with serious racial overtones in the heart of the Deep South.
A stunning collection of tritone photographs reinvents the art of landscape photography that evokes the vintage images of the American South in works that utilize methods favored by nineteenth-century masters of the photographic art to ...