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A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Category: History
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university--a history major, no less!--he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America. In fact, he's mislaid more than a century of American ...Show more
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance ...Show more
South Sea Tales by Jack London; Tony Horwitz (Introduction by); Christopher Gair (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In South Sea Tales Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection--the first to bring together all his shorter ...Show more
Spying on the South - An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz
Category: History
The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it du ...Show more
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