A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North

by John Hope Franklin

Book Overview

Frederick Law Olmsted, the northerner who wrote comprehensively about his travels in the South, had no southern counterpart. But there were thousands of southerners -- planters, merchants, bankers, students, housewives, writers, and politicians -- who traveled extensively in the North and who recorded their impressions in letters to their families, in articles for the local press, and in the few books they wrote.
In A Southern Odyssey the distinguished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807103519
• ISBN13: 9780807103517
• Release Date: August 1979
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"