Author: Francis Robert GouldingPublisher:
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Category : Alligators
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Sapelo
Author: Francis Robert GouldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alligators
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Sapelo
Author: Buddy SullivanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820350168
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state’s greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature characteristics that have made it a locus for scientific research and ecological conservation. Beginning in 1949, when then Sapelo owner R. J. Reynolds Jr. founded the Sapelo Island Research Foundation and funded the research of biologist Eugene Odum, UGA’s study of the island’s fragile wetlands helped foster the modern ecology movement. With this book, Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of the island’s history, including Native American inhabitants; Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of the innovative Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island after the Civil War; Sapelo’s two twentieth-century millionaire owners, Howard E. Coffin and R. J. Reynolds Jr., and the development of the University of Georgia Marine Institute; the state of Georgia acquisition; and the transition of Sapelo’s multiple African American communities into one. Sapelo Island’s history also offers insights into the unique cultural circumstances of the residents of the community of Hog Hammock. Sullivan provides in-depth examination of the important correlation between Sapelo’s culturally significant Geechee communities and the succession of private and state owners of the island. The book’s thematic approach is one of “people and place”: how prevailing environmental conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color photographs of the island as well as a selection of archival images and maps, Sapelo documents a unique island history.
Sapelo, Or, Child-life on the Tide-water
Author: Francis Robert GouldingPublisher:
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Category : Alligators
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Pratt Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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English Prose Fiction
Author: St. Louis Mercantile LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Ichabod
Author: William G. KennedyPublisher:
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama
Author: Norman C. DelaneyPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A vivid portrait of the man credited as a driving force behind the most successful of the Confederate raiders, the legendary C.S.S. Alabama. John McIntosh Kell was an experienced, proven military man, a graduate of Annapolis, a veteran of the Mexican War and of Admiral Perry’s voyage to Japan. As a Confederate officer, Kell served first on the raider Sumter and then on the Alabama. At sea for only 22 months, the Alabama engaged nearly 300 northern merchant vessels, burning 55 of these transport ships along with their million-dollar cargoes. Though First Lieutenant ("Luff") Kell was apparently content to let his captain, Raphael Semmes, take credit for their accomplishments, Semmes acknowledged that his successes were due largely to the energy and resourcefulness of his second in command. Life on the commerce cruisers was hard and tedious, and much of the responsibility for running the day-to-day operations, including the disciplining of a largely mercenary crew, rested on Kell, whose sense of duty and loyalty did not waver. Norman C. Delaney bases his account of this remarkable naval officer’s experiences on the interviews Kell granted to news reporters during the 1880s and 1890s (previously neglected by historians) and his memoirs, published in 1900 as Recollections of a Naval Life. He supplements these materials with records from Kell’s earlier years, including letters, journals, diaries, and contemporary observations. First published in 1973 by The University of Alabama Press, this new edition of an award-winning biography will be welcomed by Civil War historians and enthusiasts around the world, naval institutions and museums, and general readers alike.
Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends
Author: Knight, Lucien LamarPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455604838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Covers noted localities from Candler County through Worth County.
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