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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Door Paul Theroux

Categorie	Verenigde Staten & Canada
Boeknummer	#371359-XO3
Titel	Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Auteur	Theroux, Paul
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Hamish Hamilton
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	0241146739
ISBN13	9780241146736
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 and unparalleled cuisine, 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 traveller's eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, labourers 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 wo... (Lees verder)rking poor and farming families- the unsung heroes of the South, 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 Southis an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike.
Pagina's	441
Conditie	Goed — Name on verso cover.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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