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The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide
Cecily McMillan
Wade Spees
GUIDEBOOK
2004
PAPER
320 PAGES
An excellent, locally produced travel guide mixing history, culture, and anecdote with a shipload of up-to-date practical information. It does justice to this area's rich traditions and food.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1999
PAPER
386 PAGES
If you haven't already read this mega-bestseller, you're in for a treat. 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) |
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Charleston Map
Navigator Maps
MAP
A clear, easy to use souvenir map of Charleston, featuring the city center and well marked places of interest.
(USS312, $7.95) |
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Savannah Map
Navigator Maps
MAP
A clear, easy to use map of the city center, featuring well marked places of interest.
(USS340, $7.95) |
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Atlanta Map
Borch Maps
A laminated map of the city center of Atlanta.
(USS329, $7.95) |
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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.
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The National Trust Guide to Savannah
Roulhac Toledano
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to the architectural culture and history of Old Savannah. With 200 archival photographs and maps, it includes chapters on historic preservation, famous visitors, and a comprehensive tour of architectural styles.
(USS26, $26.95) |
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A Short History of Charleston
Robert Rosen
HISTORY
A short, authoritative, and lively history of Charleston by a native son. Rosen, a third-generation Charlestonian, recounts Charleston's history, communicating the town's considerable flavor. With 84 black-and-white photos.
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Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz
HISTORY
Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book conjures the remarkable, ongoing interest in the Civil War. Horwitz draws much history into this account of travels through former battlefields.
(USS35, $14.95) |
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Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles
Burnette Vanstory
Eugenia Price
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
First published in 1956, this is a rich portrait of the sea islands off of Georgia's coast. Each island gets its own chapter, detailing its history, with information on the native peoples, early settlements and slave plantations.
(USS63, $18.95) |
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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) |
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The Civil War, An Illustrated History
Geoffrey C. Ward
Ken Burns
HISTORY
An illustrated, comprehensive social history of the Civil War by the now-famous team of Ward and Burns. With 500 photographs and maps, extensive text and original essays by contributing experts.
(USS27, $29.95) |
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The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires
June Hall McCash
William Barton McCash
HISTORY
A history of the legendary Jekyll Island Club, the group of powerful millionaires (including Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Pulitzer) who vacationed on the small island off the coast of Georgia.
(USS75, $39.95) |
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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) |
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Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden
Emily Whaley
William Baldwin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The thoughts and reflections of 85-year-old Mrs. Emily Whaley, a giant in the Charleston gardening community -- and owner of one of the most visited private gardens in America.
(USS311, $14.00) |
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Lady Baltimore
Owen Wister
LITERATURE
This novel is set in Charleston just after the Civil War, when the traditional values of the Old South were in great conflict with those of the victorious northerners. First published in 1906, it's a classic southern portrait.
(USS22, $10.95) |
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Mama Day
Gloria Naylor
LITERATURE
A glorious novel populated by the vibrant inhabitants, especially the women, of Willow Springs -- a fictional barrier island off the Atlantic coast between Georgia and South Carolina.
(USS23, $13.95) |
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The Jekyl Island Club, A Novel
Brent Monahan
MYSTERY
A murder mystery firmly set in the haughtily exclusive club on Georgia's Jekyl Island in 1899. Monahan's detective goes up against the likes of J.P. Morgan and other real-life members of the club in this page-turner which interweaves actual events.
(USS59, $14.95) |
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The March
E. L. Doctorow
LITERATURE
In this powerful historical novel, Doctorow captures the drama and import of General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War.
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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.
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