Bøger i Wormsloe Foundation Publication serien

Discusses the omnipresence of birds in Native American life. This book examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American world view.

Written by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an illustrated guide to the species that frequent the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. It opens with comprehensive coverage of the sea turtle's evolution, juvenile and adult life cycles, nesting, diet and feeding, predators, and more.

The story of a prominent Georgia family and its efforts to preserve the southern history. It focuses on the achievements of the De Rennes between 1827 and 1970, reconstructing their lives at Wormsloe and their travels around the world. It also takes a look at the antiquarian book trade.

Cumberland Island: A History chronicles five centuries of change to the landscape and its people from the days of the first Native Americans through the late-twentieth-century struggles between developers and conservationists.

Showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state since the nineteenth century. This book also reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture. It contains chapters that follow various threads of the craft, including Civil War - era quilts, the cotton economy, quilting groups, and more.

Athens, Georgia, seems the quintessential southern university town, its geography chiseled over geologic time by its lifeblood. This title pays attention to Athens' natural and built environments and their coevolution into one of the modern South's most dynamic small cities.

Explores how hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia - South Carolina seaboard. This book weaves the Lowcountry's long social, political, and economic history with firsthand reports and data accumulated by the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

An exhaustive biography of John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer, one of America's greatest songwriters who wrote for Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald from the 1930s to the 1960s. Winner of Academy Awards for several of

This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields who shed new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.

Filled with more than 300 colour photographs, this is a comprehensive guide to the snakes of the Southeast of North America. At the heart of the guide are its illustrated descriptions of each species and its habitat. Also included is information about the importance of snake conservation and the biology, diversity, and life cycles of snakes.

This work focuses on a particular place and time to explore how environment and human culture transform each other. It shows how each successive community on the Georgia coast forged unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes.

This engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to the uncertainties faced by its Civil War survivors in 1865. It shows how war, disease, market forces, fire, and other circumstances left their marks on the city and its people.

This guide is designed to enable readers to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern USA. It treats more than 300 species and features identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, and a glossary of terms.

Attempts to define what effect the semitropical, hostile border environment of colonial Georgia had on the plantation development scheme of at least one English settler. Kelso's report concludes with a detailed study of the artifacts with illustrations, descriptions, and identifications of the important pieces.

A broad-based coalition of supporters came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was a first-in-the-US bill to save the marshes of a state from mining and development. This book is the history of this legislative act, as told by the leader of the coalition, Reid Harris.

A memoir trains a naturalist's eye and a daughter's heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist's lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world.