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Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...
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328 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
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Discover the best destinations, sights, and excursions with maps pinpointing key attractions. Includes information for: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, The Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
4) Dirt road
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407 pages ; 21 cm
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After his mothers recent death, sixteen-year-old Murdo and his father travel from their home in rural Scotland to Alabama to be with his émigré uncle and American aunt. Stopping at a small town on their way from the airport, Murdo happens upon a family playing zydeco music and joins them, leaving with a gift of two CDs of Southern American songs. On this first visit to the States, Murdo notices racial tension, religious fundamentalism, the threat...
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476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"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, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport -- rail, riverboats, in the saddle -- through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi,...
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