PAUL THEROUX - Deep South

London England, Hamish Hamilton, 2015. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9780241146729 Hardback Hardback. price clipped. Deep South. With photographs by Steve McCurry. 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 oparadoxical place, full of incomparable music and unparreled cuisine, 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 traveller's eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, labourers in Arkansas, and past 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, people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. Illustrated.