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Tony Horwitz
Born
in Washington, DC, The United States
June 09, 1958
Died
May 27, 2019
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I'm back!
Apologies, have been away for several years while researching and writing my latest, Spying on the South, which comes out in a few weeks. Like most of my other books it's a mix of history, journalism, and travel adventure. In this case parallel journeys. Frederick Law Olmsted's in the 1850s, across the South, as an undercover correspondent for the New York Times (which led him to Central Park and
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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1998
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28 editions
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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2002
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43 editions
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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2008
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30 editions
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
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2011
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17 editions
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Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
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1991
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16 editions
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Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
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2019
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8 editions
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One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
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1987
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13 editions
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BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
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2014
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3 editions
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The Devil May Care: 50 Intrepid Americans and Their Quest for the Unknown
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2003
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3 editions
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“The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' and drowning each other in tea until the end of time.”
― Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
― Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
“I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.”
― One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
― One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
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