More Books

CHARLESTON, More Books		E-mail Print

	AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta • Isabelle Gournay • Paul Beswick • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide. (USS336, $24.95)
	Atlanta 1864, Last Chance for the Confederacy • Richard M. McMurry • HISTORY • A short, but thorough analysis of the Union victory in Atlanta. (WAR14, $17.95)
	Atlanta Map • Borch Maps • A laminated map of the city center of Atlanta. (USS329, $7.95)
	Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era • James McPherson • HISTORY • A comprehensive, vivid history of the Civil War, its genesis, battles, politics and personalities from the war with Mexico to Appomattox. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book may be 900 pages long but it reads like a good novel. (USS37, $19.95)
	The Beloved Invader • Eugenia Price • LITERATURE • The third novel in Price's popular St. Simon's Trilogy. (USS91, $16.95)
	The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession • Mark Obmascik • NATURAL HISTORY • Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled. (BRD29, $14.00)
	The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife • Christopher W. Leahy • Gordon Morrison • NATURAL HISTORY • A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
	Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas • Judith Ann Carney • HISTORY • An academic study of the origins and practice of rice cultivation in the antebellum South. (USS228, $45.00)
	The Carolina Rice Kitchen, The African Connection • Karen Hess • Robert M. Weir • FOOD • A social history of rice and rice cooking in South Carolin (USS226, $19.95)
	The Charleston Gardener • Louisa Pringle Cameron • Lauren Preller Chambers • NATURAL HISTORY • Charleston's most beautiful gardens and their gardeners who tend to them. (USS310, $39.95)
	Charleston Style, Past and Present • Susan Sully • John Blais • Josephine Humphreys • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Part of a popular series, this photographic journey through the historic buildings, notable homes and lavish gardens of Charleston is a visual treat. It also features an evocative text. (USS271, $50.00)
	Charleston, South Carolina (Black America Series) • John W. Meffert • Sherman Pyatt • Avery Research Center • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A photographic collection of African American life in Charleston, South Carolina. (USS144, $19.99)
	The Children of Pride, A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War (Abridged) • Robert Manson Myers • Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. • HISTORY • Collected letters drawn from residents of plantations. (USS270, $29.00)
	The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861- 1865 • E.B. Long • Babara Long • HISTORY • Detailed and indexed, this volume serves as an excellent reference to the daily activities of the Civil War. (USS149, $35.00)
	Classic Atlanta, Landmarks of the Atlanta Spirit • Van J. Martin • William Robert Mitchell • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A quick tour of Atlanta. (USS328, $60.00)
	Classic Savannah: History, Houses and Gardens • William Robert Mitchell • Van J. Martin • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A quick tour of Savannah, focusing on its sumptuous architecture. (USS269, $35.00)
	Cold Sassy Tree • Olive Ann Burns • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS • Set in a fictional town in Georgia, Burns' popular bestseller is a portrait of small-town life in the South. (USS386, $13.95)
	Compass Guide Georgia • John T. Edge • Robb Helfrick • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guidebook to Georgia, featuring detailed maps, literary excerpts, and travel information. (USS58, $21.95)
	The Complete Stories • Flannery O'Connor • LITERATURE • O'Connor lived most of her short life in Milledgeville, Georgia, and she wrote what she knew. (USS255, $17.00)
	Cruising Guide to Coastal South Carolina and Georgia • Claiborne S. Young • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide for sailors with navigational data, maps and charts, practical information, and regional history. Fifth edition. (USE349, $26.95)
	Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community • Charles Joyner • HISTORY • A scholarly cultural history of life on the plantations of the South Carolina low country. (USS227, $25.00)
	Drums and Shadows, Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes • Georgia Writers' Project • Charles Joyner • Malcolm Bell • HISTORY • A reprint of a collection of interviews with slaves and descendents of slaves. (USS268, $19.95)
	Eastern Seashore Life, Rhode Island to Georgia • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh • FIELD GUIDE • A fold-out, pocket-size guide illustrating almost 150 species of seashore critters. (USE231, $5.95)
	Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars • Catherine Clinton • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography ofactress and abolitionist Frances Anne Kemble. (USS266, $24.00)
	Fanny Kemble's Journals • Frances Anne Kemble • Catherine Clinton • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A condensed volume of the journals of Frances Anne Kemble. (USS267, $16.95)
	From Slavery to Freedom, A History of African Americans • John Hope Franklin • HISTORY • A classic history of the African American experience. (USA39, $75.00)
	Gardens of Historic Charleston • James R. Cothran • NATURAL HISTORY • A photographic tour and history of Charleston's most treasured gardens. (USS309, $39.95)
	Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863 • Stephen Wise • HISTORY • An accurate, detailed account of the Union attack on Fort Sumter and Charleston. (WAR108, $29.95)
	The Georgia Coast, Waterways and Islands • Nancy Schwalbe Zydler • Tom Zydler • GUIDEBOOK • A boater's guide to Georgia's coast. (USS273, $39.95)
	Georgia Map • Rand McNally Maps • A detailed road map of the state of Georgia, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (USS62, $4.95)
	Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913 • Gaines M. Foster • HISTORY • A social history of Southern attitudes in the wake of the Civil War. (USS220, $40.00)
	Golf Course Wildlife, Southeast Coast (North Carolina to Northern Florida) • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh • FIELD GUIDE • A quick-reference fold-out guide, featuring illustrations of almost 150 species. (USS216, $5.95)
	Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way • Sallie Ann Robinson • FOOD • Robinson, who grew up on Daufuskie island, combines memoir, cultural portrait and recipes. (USS358, $17.95)
	Gullah People and the Their African Heritage • William S. Pollitzer • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A history and portrait of the distinctive Gullah culture of South Carolina's Sea islands. (USS357, $39.95)
	Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking • John Martin Taylor • FOOD • A cookbook and celebration of South Carolina cuisine. (USS225, $18.00)
	Images of America: Charleston, an Album From the Collection of the Charleston Museum • Mary Moore Jacoby • John W. Meffert • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A photographic collection reflecting the daily life in turn-of-the-century Charleston, South Carolina. (USS143, $18.99)
	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)
	Insight Guide Old South • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated overview of the Old South with essays on its attractions, history and culture. (USS04, $22.95)
	James Edward Oglethorpe • Joyce Blackburn • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A short biography of the founder of the first colony in Georgia. (USS292, $9.95)
	James Edward Oglethorpe • Joyce Blackburn • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A short biography of the founder of the first colony in Georgia. (USS292, $9.95)
	The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony • June Hall McCash • HISTORY • An illustrated examination of the cottages built by the members of the Jekyll Island Club. (USS76, $45.00)
	The Jewish Community of Savannah • Valerie Frey • Kaye Kole • HISTORY • A history of Jewish life in Savannah, Georgia. (USS314, $19.99)
	Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The journal of abolitionist Frances Anne Kemble. (USS88, $22.95)
	Journal of a Visit to the Georgia Islands of St. Catherines, Green, Ossabaw, Sapelo, St. Simons, Jekyll, and Cumberland • Jonathan Bryan • Virginia Steele Wood • Mary R. Bullard • Louis DeVries • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An account of an 18th-century boat journey down the Georgia coast. (USS83, $24.95)
	Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand • Kenn Kaufman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year. (BRD27, $14.00)
	Ladies, Women, and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston • Jane H. Pease • William H. Pease • HISTORY • This comparative history juxtaposes the lives of women in pre-Civil War Boston and Charleston. (USS333, $25.00)
	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)
	Leaving Cold Sassy • Olive Ann Burns • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS • Leaving Cold Sassy, the sequel to the popular Cold Sassy Tree, offers the unfinished last fifteen chapters, as well as the author's notes for future scenes. (USS387, $13.95)
	Lighthouse • Eugenia Price • LITERATURE • The first novel in the popular St. Simon's Trilogy. (USS89, $16.95)
	Looking for Atlanta • Marilyn Dorn Staats • LITERATURE • A touching and often humorous portrait of a middle age woman from Atlanta reassessing her life. (USS337, $12.95)
	Low Country Hurricanes • Walter Fraser • NATURAL HISTORY • Fraser looks at the great storms of the last 300 years and how they have affected life on South Carolina and Georgia's coasts. Illustrated with 63 photographs. (USS380, $29.95)
	Lowcountry Plantations Today • William P. Baldwin • N. Jane Isley • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Modern southern plantations as seen through color photographs. (USS275, $60.00)
	Lowcountry, The Natural Landscape • Tom Bladgen • NATURAL HISTORY • (USS274, $49.95)
	Major Butler's Legacy, Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family • Malcolm Bell • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The history of a slave owning family from the Revolutionary War to the 20th century. (USS87, $32.95)
	Mammals of North America • Roland W. Kays • Don E. Wilson • FIELD GUIDE • The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico. (NAM11, $19.95)
	Masters of Small Worlds • Stephanie McCurry • HISTORY • This study of the South Carolina Low Country focuses on the complex domestic relations within the yeoman household in plantation society. An all-encompassing look at race, class, gender, and religion. (USS105, $29.95)
	Middle Passage • Charles Johnson • LITERATURE • Winner of the National Book Award, this historical novel, set in 1830, is the richly imagined tale of a recently freed slave in New Orleans who signs aboard a square-rigger bound for Africa. (ATL02, $15.00)
	My Father's People, A Family of Southern Jews • Louis Decimus Rubin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A vivid and powerful family history. (USS315, $25.95)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America • National Geographic • FIELD GUIDE • From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
	New Moon Rising • Eugenia Price • LITERATURE • The second novel in Price's popular St. Simon's Trilogy. (USS90, $16.95)
	Personal Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant • Ulysses S. Grant • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A remarkable (and big) account of a rich life, from a poor boy on the frontier to a great general and president, written by Grant on his deathbed -- and originally edited by none other than Mark Twain. (USS33, $16.00)
	The Planter's Prospect, Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings • John Michael Vlach • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This scholarly book offers illustrations and analysis of plantation paintings from 1800 to the 1930s. (USS352, $32.50)
	A Portion of the People, Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life • Theodore Rosengarten • Dale Rosengarten • HISTORY • An exhibition catalog by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina. (USS318, $34.95)
	Portrait of an Island • Mildred Teal • John Teal • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history of Sapelo Island, written in the 1950s. (USS79, $16.95)
	The Private Gardens of Charleston • Louisa Pringle Cameron • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Color photographs depicting the city's many gardens. (USS264, $39.95)
	The Promise of the New South, Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition • Edward L. Ayers • HISTORY • A lauded history of the post-Civil War South, covering industry, agriculture, race, politics and society at a critical moment in our history. Fifteenth-anniversary edition. (USS404, $19.95)
	Rehearsal for Reconstruction, the Port Royal Experiment • Willie Lee Rose • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A sweeping tale of change in the Sea Islands from capture by the Union in 1861 through Reconstruction. (USS359, $24.95)
	Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories • Ronald J. Drez • David Eisenhower • HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information. (USA96, $17.95)
	Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul • Scott Weidensaul • NATURAL HISTORY • An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America. (USA123, $15.00)
	Robert E. Lee • Roy Blount, Jr. • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A lively short biographical essay in the excellent Penguin Lives series, matching writers and subjects. (USS377, $19.95)
	Row upon Row, Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry • Dale Rosengarten • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey. (USS361, $15.00)
	Savannah Style, Mystery and Manners • Susan Sully • Steven Brooke • John Berendt • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A visual treat, this book tours through the historic buildings, notable homes and lavish gardens of Savannah. Enhanced by evocative accompanying text. (USS272, $50.00)
	Shades of Blue and Gray • Herman Hattaway • HISTORY • A concise military history of the Civil War, including warfare technology, battle strategy and the significance of individual battles. (USS148, $17.00)
	Sherman's March • Burke Davis • Jeff Stone • Carolyn Reidy • HISTORY • This moving account of Sherman's devastating march is noteworthy for its fairness and breadth of research. Davis incorporates eyewitness testimonies of soldiers and civilian survivors. (WAR107, $15.00)
	Sherman's March through the Carolinas • John Gilchrist Barrett • HISTORY • A history of Sherman's Carolina campaign, less well known than his march through Georgia, but just as devastating. Barret is a professor and an expert on the Civil War in the Carolinas. (WAR104, $19.95)
	Sherman's March to the Sea, Hood's Tennessee Campaign and the Campaigns of 1865 • Jacob D. Cox • HISTORY • A clear and cogent first-hand account of the last stage of the Civil War and Sherman's legendary march through Georgia as told by General Jacob D. Cox. (WAR105, $16.95)
	Shout Because You're Free, The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia • Art Rosenbaum • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A richly detailed record of the history and traditions of the McIntosh County Shouters. (USS360, $24.95)
	Slave Counterpoint, Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry • David Morgan • HISTORY • A scholarly, readable comparison of the slave cultures of Virginia and South Carolina. Intended for a general audience, Morgan covers the lives of the slaves in rich detail, and paints a compelling portrait of African Americans in the South on the eve of the American Revolution. (USS10, $30.00)
	South Carolina Map • Rand McNally Maps • A colorful road map of South Carolina and the northern coast of Georgia. (USS99, $4.95)
	The Southeast Map • National Geographic • A fold-up map of the Southest, including the coast from Jacksonville to the Chesapeake at a scale of 1:1,860,000. (USS40, $7.95)
	Southern Georgia Map • Universal Map Enterprises • A full color road map of southern Georgia. (USS81, $4.95)
	Southern Honor, Ethics and Behavior in the Old South • Bertram Wyatt-Brown • HISTORY • An examination of the social order and unwritten codes dictating life in the post-Civil War South. 25th-annivesary edition. (USS405, $19.95)
	Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas • Ronald Wright • HISTORY • A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account. (NAM20, $17.00)
	Tara Revisited: Women, War & the Plantation Legend • Catherine Clinton • HISTORY • A history of southern women during the Civil War. (USS265, $16.95)
	A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf • John Muir • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A botanical expedition through the post-Civil War South. (FLA09, $11.95)
	To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina • Larry Hudson • HISTORY • An in-depth look at the slaves' life of disruption, work, family and death. (USS104, $44.95)
	To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession • Dan Koeppel • NATURAL HISTORY • In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species. (BRD28, $14.00)
	To the Sea, A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West: Shermans March Across Georgia, 1864 • Jim Miles • HISTORY • Both a historical introduction and guide to Sherman's March to the Sea. (WAR106, $20.95)
	A Turn in the South • V.S. Naipaul • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • First published in the New Yorker, Naipaul's wandering travel narrative is a poetic but profoundly disturbing portrait of the American South. (USS65, $14.95)
	The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder • Peter Cashwell • NATURAL HISTORY • A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes. (BRD26, $14.95)
	When Roots Die, Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands • Patricia Jones-Jackson • Charles Joyner • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A record of the folkways, stories and traditional beliefs of South Carolina's Sea Islands. (USS356, $22.95)
	White Terror, The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction • Allen W. Trelease • HISTORY • A history of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction Era South. (USS221, $24.95)

home map | book bag | advanced search | contact us

(800) 342-2164 (212) 904-1144 115 West 30th St., Suite 1206 New York, NY 10001 USA