Spying on the South

[Dennis Urban]

I finished the book a couple of weeks ago. What I found fascinating was Horwitz ability to locate many of the actual areas, sites, and some structures about which Olmsted wrote. What an enormous amount of research went into that effort; of course it took years. I, too, found several Olmsted descriptions to be tedious and laborious; sometimes skipping finishing them. The book is a wonderful read; hard to put down. I completely agree with Tom Bogar's comment regarding the last page of the book; it only makes sense if one reads all that comes before. The writing of Tony Horwitz will be greatly missed.