02518cam a2200445 i 4500 243030716 TxAuBib 20150928120000.0 150307s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015006631 9780544323520 0544323521 (OCoLC)904755965 TxAuBib rda Theroux, Paul. Deep South [ANF] : four seasons on back roads / Paul Theroux. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015] ℗2015. 441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "An Eamon Dolan book.". "Photos by Steve McCurry"-- Book jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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, unparalleled cuisine, and 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 traveler's eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers 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 working poor and farming families--the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. 20150928. Theroux, Paul Travel Southern States. Scenic byways Southern States. Seasons Southern States. Southern States Description and travel. Southern States Social life and customs. Southern States Social conditions. Southern States Biography. TXGPL