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March Book Club

Join Stacey Goldring at the bookstore as we consider covertly Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz.  Our book club will meet in the bookstore at 6:30 pm, refreshments will be served. 

Reservations should be made on the Chapter Endnotes page.  Click here.

Books should be purchased here.  See below for book description.   A book club bundle is also available, which can be found here

 

Event address: 
1971 San Marco Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32207-3211
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide By Tony Horwitz Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101980309
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Penguin Books - May 12th, 2020

With Spying on the South, 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 during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.

 

For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name Yeoman, the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect.


$108.98
SKU: BCBundle