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These 4 items are available for $66, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSS110)

Old Glory, A Voyage Down the Mississippi  •  Jonathan Raban TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 409 PAGES Raban tackles the "Mighty Mississippi" aboard a 16-foot motorboat in this entertaining travelogue, featuring places and people he encounters along the way. It's a portrait of contemporary life from Minnesota to Mississippi. (USS42, $15.00)
Deep South, Mississippi Valley, Gulf of Mexico  •  Hallwag MAP A map of the southern Mississippi Valley region of the United States at a scale of 1:1,200,000, including Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. With a gazetteer, national parks, and more detailed insets of major cities. (USS47, $12.95)
Insight Guide USA the New South  •  Brian Bell GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 388 PAGES Covering Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi and the Carolinas, this colorful guide features hundreds of photographs, excellent full-color maps and an overview of the history, culture and attractions of the region. (USS394, $22.95)
Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era  •  James McPherson HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 904 PAGES A vivid history of the Civil War, its genesis, battles, politics and personalities from the war with Mexico to Appomattox. McPherson's portrait of the Antebellum South has become the standard for its marshalling of facts and personalities into a compelling story. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book may be 900 pages long but it reads like a good novel. (USS37, $19.95)

Louisiana / Mississippi Map  •  AAA Publishing    •  A clear, detailed traveler's map of the two southern states. (USS32, $4.95)
Vicksburg Map  •  Universal Map Enterprises    •  A folded road map of Vicksburg, Mississippi. (USS161, $4.95)
Compass Guide Gulf South Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama  •  Sydney Byrd  •  Brian Gauvin  •  Bethany Bultman   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Written by a native Southerner who weaves local stories on history, legends and music into a handy guide that will take you through Cajun Country, the French Quarters, Natchez Trace, Mobile and the bayou. (USS145, $21.00)
Insider's Guide to Atlanta  •  Bonnie McKay  •  John E. McKay   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to the city and its attractions with detailed descriptions of museums, hotels, restaurants and shops. With a section on day trips outside the city. (USS236, $18.95)
Insight Pocket Guide New Orleans  •  Honey Naylor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A brief, fully illustrated guide tot he city featuring excellent neighborhood maps. (USS179, $12.95)
Moon Handbook Charleston & Savannah  •  Mike Sigalas   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide from the Moon series that offers a wide range of practical information on the region surrounding the two cities, including accommodation, shopping, dining and plenty of activities for hikers, bikers and golfers. (USE413, $16.95)
Moon Handbook Tennessee  •  Jeff Bradley   • GUIDEBOOK  •  (USS188, $19.95)
New Orleans Cemeteries, Life in the Cities of the Dead  •  Mason Florence  •  Robert Florence   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A cultural history of New Orleans as seen through its often elaborate cemeteries and funerary ritual. (USS167, $29.95)
The Deep South: Smithsonian Guides to Historic America  •  William Bryant Logan  •  Donald Young  •  Vance Muse   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A profusely illustrated guide to places of historical interest in the Deep South. (USS85, $19.95)
The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi: Natchez and the South, Vol. 1  •  Helen Kerr Kempe  •  Susan Cole Dore   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated guidebook to Southern Mississippi (USS137, $12.95)
Southern Food, At Home, on the Road, in History  •  John Egerton  •  Al Clayton   • FOOD  •  An appreciative book on Southern cuisine. (USS223, $27.50)
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta  •  Robert Palmer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Palmer crafts an engaging, thoroughly interesting history of blues music, tracing it from its rural roots in the Mississippi Delta to great blues musicians like Muddy Waters and B.B. King. (USS396, $16.00)
Fabulous New Orleans  •  Lyle Saxon   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  First published in the 1920's, this charming book by local journalist and literary personality Lyle Saxon is a lovely, impressionistic chronicle of the city, its people and its culture. The book is divided into a series of tales grouped by subject (Mardi Gras, the French Quarter, etc.). (USS01, $14.95)
Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign  •  Jay Luvaas  •  Steven Bowman  •  Leonard Fullenkamp   • HISTORY  •  A history and guide to the battlefield of Vicksburg designed for the traveler. With archival and modern maps, as well as photographic portraits of many of the major officers, it's a terrific handbook for the Civil War enthusiast. (USS155, $17.95)
Inside the Carnival, Unmasking Louisiana Politics  •  Wayne Parent   • HISTORY  •  A humorous analysis and history of Louisiana's unique political history, from its legal system and odd voting rules to its astounding and well-publicized tradition of corruption. (USS392, $17.95)
Queen of The Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena  •  Julia Reed   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A Mississippian gone New Yorker, Reed offers a unique biregional perspective in this collection of essays on Southern culture, wandering from amusing topics such as the Southern affinity for big hair to more serious issues like the area's lack of gun control. (USS395, $12.95)
Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America  •  John M. Barry   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of the devastating Mississippi flood of 1927, delving deeply into the race relations, agriculture and politics of the time. (USS48, $17.00)
Savannah in the Old South  •  Walter Fraser   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive history of Savannah from its early days as an Indian trading center to the end of the Civil War. (USS366, $22.95)
Shantyboat: A River Way of Life  •  Harlan Hubbard   • HISTORY  •  Hubbard and his wife built a 24-foot houseboat and lived on it for six years, eventually drifting downriver to New Orleans. (USS383, $18.00)
The Beleaguered City, The Vicksburg Campaign  •  Shelby Foote   • HISTORY  •  Shelby Foote, a noted Civil War scholar, tells the engrossing narrative of the taking of Vicksburg in 1863 by Ulysses S. Grant and his Union troops. It was one of the pivotal battles of the Civil War, and distinguished Grant as a military genius. (USS51, $17.95)
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation  •  Stephen Ambrose  •  Douglas Brinkley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This illustrated popular history -- and travelogue -- tells the story of the great river from the time of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. (USM110, $40.00)
The South in Modern America, A Region at Odds  •  Dewey Grantham   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive, well researched survey of the South from the time of Reconstruction to the late 20th century. Grantham captures the politics, history, and psychology of the lower half of the country. (USS66, $19.95)
Trail of Tears, The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation  •  John Ehle   • HISTORY  •  The history of the Cherokee, from their first settlement in the Southeast to their forced exile from Georgia to the West; it makes for a heartbreaking story of history, politics and power. (USE21, $15.95)
Architecture of the Old South  •  Mills Lane  •  Van Jones Martin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated survey of the glorious architecture of the Old South. With an authoritative text by a Savannah native, and 250 sumptuous color photographs of antebellum architecture. (USS19, $75.00)
Blues from the Delta  •  William R. Ferris   • MUSIC  •  A cultural history of the Blues. (MUS34, $16.50)
Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area  •  David King Gleason   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Color photographs of Louisiana plantation homes and Natchez Trace (USS132, $49.95)
A Turn in the South  •  V.S. Naipaul   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  First published in the New Yorker, Naipaul's wandering travel narrative is a poetic but profoundly disturbing portrait of the American South. (USS65, $14.00)
Around the Bend, A Mississippi River Adventure  •  C.C. Lockwood   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A photographic tour of the Mississippi River as seen through the lens of naturalist and wildlife photographer C.C. Lockwood. (USS45, $39.95)
Black Boy  •  Richard A. Wright  •  Jerry W. Ward   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The autobiography of Richard Wright, chronicling his days as a young black man in rural Mississippi and Memphis. It's a hard-hitting look at race relations in the United States before the civil rights era. (USS50, $14.95)
Ice Tea and Elvis, A Saunter through the Southern States  •  John Middleton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A dryly witty, astute narrative of the British author's travels throughout the American South. Middleton's "saunter" begins in Graceland, then follows an ambling, rambling route south to Miami. (USS244, $14.99)
Life on the Mississippi  •  Mark Twain   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic marking Twain's return to the days of his youth spent on the Mississippi. Full of historical information, anecdotes, character sketches and fond memories, it's an enjoyable look back at the Old Mississippi. (USS05, $9.95)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil  •  John Berendt   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Berendt magically turned his relatively brief stay in Savannah into a rollicking and sensitive portrait of the city, capturing a great variety of colorful characters and the spirit of the place. (USS09, $14.95)
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest  •  Eddy L. Harris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In the autumn of 1985, Eddy Harris set out alone in a canoe to travel the length of the Mississippi River, from Minnesota to New Orleans. He faced bad weather, dangerous wild dogs, and racist rednecks and emerged with an engaging memoir. (USS384, $15.00)
Satchmo, My Life in New Orleans  •  Louis Armstrong  •  Dan Morgenstern   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Jazz great Louis Armstrong regales with tales of his youth in Louisiana. (USS230, $16.95)
The River Queen  •  Mary Morris   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An engaging, meditative account of travels aboard a houseboat on the upper Mississippi. (USM115, $24.00)
New Orleans Stories, Great Writers on the City  •  John Miller  •  Andrei Codrescu   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of stories and essays about the Big Easy by some of America's best writers, including Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. (USS350, $14.95)
A Confederacy of Dunces  •  John Kennedy Toole   • LITERATURE  •  The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, drenched in New Orleans color and culture. Its sharp humor, combined with vivid local detail, makes it great reading for any visitor to New Orleans. (USS02, $14.00)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories  •  Flannery O'Connor   • LITERATURE  •  This celebrated collection of short stories contains the well-known title story along with eight others, all of which characterize the underside of life in the rural South in O'Connor's trademark wry prose. (USS393, $13.00)
All the King's Men  •  Robert Penn Warren   • LITERATURE  •  Penn Warren drew on the character of Huey Long for this novel about a Louisiana politician who hits the bigtime and loses his heart to power. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947. (USS253, $15.00)
Cajun and Creole Folktales, The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana  •  Barry Jean Ancelet   • LITERATURE  •  An excellent, wide-ranging compilation of Cajun and Creole folktales, presented side-by-side in French and English. It includes magic tales, jokes, animal tales, tall tales and legends. (USS152, $25.00)
Literary Savannah  •  Patrick Allen   • LITERATURE  •  An anthology of fiction and non-fiction set in Savannah, portraying the city, its people and culture. With contributions by Henry James, Margaret Mitchell, and Flannery O'Connor. (USS20, $16.95)
The Confidence-Man  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  Melville's last novel, the tale of a gambler and con man on a Mississippi River steam boat. (USM112, $12.95)
The Moviegoer  •  Walker Percy   • LITERATURE  •  Walker Percy won the 1961 National Book Award for this novel, his masterpiece, which unfolds in New Orleans during a momentous Carnival week. It's a great book that we can recommend as much for its sheer readability as for its palpable sense of place. (USS249, $13.95)
The Sound and the Fury  •  William Faulkner   • LITERATURE  •  Faulkner's classic novel is a psychological study of the Compson family. (USS70, $11.95)
Yonder Stands Your Orphan  •  Barry Hannah   • LITERATURE  •  A dazzling Gothic novel of the Deep South, bursting with eccentric, deeply confused characters, humor and pain. Set near Vicksburg, Mississippi. (USS232, $13.00)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact photographic guide to the nature of the Southeast States from Mississippi and Georgia to North Carolina, featuring 1,500 photographs, concise descriptions and an overview of the natural history of the area. (USS31, $19.95)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •  National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)