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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. (USS13, $18.95)
  The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide
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)
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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)
  Charleston Map
Savannah Map  •   Navigator Maps
MAP
A clear, easy to use map of the city center, featuring well marked places of interest. (USS340, $7.95)
  Savannah Map
 

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Atlanta Map  •   Borch Maps    •  A laminated map of the city center of Atlanta. (USS329, $7.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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. (USS12, $16.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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. (USS373, $14.95)
 
 
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)
 
 


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