Ebook {Epub PDF} Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux

Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a corner of America—the Deep South. On a winding road trip through Mississippi, South Carolina, and elsewhere below the Mason-Dixon, Theroux discovers architectural and artistic wonders, incomparable music, mouth-watering cuisine—and also some of the worst schools, medical care, housing, and unemployment rates in the nation/5().  · Theroux's (The Mosquito Coast; Ghost Train on the Eastern Star) title takes us on a trip to a part of the South few seek out. He avoids big cities such as Atlanta and New Orleans and heads to the Deep South: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, and South bltadwin.ru: HMH Books.  · FOUR SEASONS ON BACK ROADS. An acclaimed travel writer and novelist’s engrossing account of his journey through the Deep South. During his long, fruitful career, Theroux (Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories, , etc.) has traveled to many exotic locations all over the world. Yet 50 years after he began as a travel writer, he was suddenly seized with a longing to travel through the .

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads. by Paul Theroux. See Customer Reviews. Select Format. Hardcover. $ - $ Hardcover $ - $ Paperback. $ - $ Paperback $ - $ New York Times Book Review Paul Theroux has spent the past fifty years roaming the globe, describing his encounters with remote people and far. Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. William Taylor is a clergyman in the London Borough of Hackney and author of 'This Bright Field: A Travel Book in One Place' (Methuen) Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, by Paul Theroux.

Paul Theroux’s ‘Deep South’ from London to Tokyo to Moscow and back again. visiting and revisiting the same “smaller places and huddled towns” through four seasons. A road trip. It’s Theroux’s remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal. Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux. 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.'.