For days gone by fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth – to China, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Russia, and elsewhere. In Deep South he becomes his gaze to an area much closer to his house. Travelling through North and SC, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas he writes of the beautiful scenery he discovers – the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi – and most importantly, the lives of the people he meets.