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The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide
Cecily McMillan Wade Spees
GUIDEBOOK 2008 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)
A Short History of Charleston
Robert Rosen
HISTORY 1997 PAPER 176 PAGES
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. Well illustrated with 84 black-and-white photos.
(USS12, $16.95)
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)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States
Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE 1999 FLEXI-BOUND 446 PAGES
Covering everything from the birds and bees to flowers, trees, mammals and fish, this compact guide features 1,500 photographs, concise descriptions and an overview of the natural history and protected areas of the Southeast from Mississippi and Georgia to North Carolina. Take it along.
(USS31, $19.95)
Charleston Map
Navigator Maps
A clear, easy to use souvenir map of Charleston, featuring the city center and well marked places of interest.
(USS312, $7.95)
Savannah Map
Navigator Maps
A clear, easy to use map of the city center, featuring well marked places of interest.
(USS340, $7.95)
Fodor's Pocket Savannah & Charleston
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
The sixth edition of the popular compact guide, slim in size but chock-full of useful information, attractions and sightseeing details.
(USS24, $10.95)
The Intracoastal Waterway, Norfolk to Miami
Jan and Bill Moeller
GUIDEBOOK
A spiral-bound, mile-by-mile guide to the Intracoastal Waterway intended for sailors.
(USS30, $19.95)
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)
Very Charleston, A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
GUIDEBOOK
A quirky overview of the city and its attractions.
(USE402, $15.95)
Southern Food, At Home, on the Road, in History
John Egerton
Al Clayton
FOOD
An appreciative book on Southern cuisine.
(USS223, $27.50)
Africans in America, America's Journey Through Slavery
Charles Johnson
Patricia Smith
WBGH Series Research Team
HISTORY
A powerful collaborative effort that paints a vivid picture of the history of slavery in America, and celebrates the brave Africans who managed to preserve their heritage as they endured so many hardships.
(USS53, $17.00)
Confederate Charleston, An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War
Robert Rosen
HISTORY
A lavishly illustrated history of Charleston during the civil war, this is an illuminating portrait of the times, the war, and, of course, the great city.
(USS11, $39.95)
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, $19.95)
Praying for Sheetrock
Melissa Fay Greene
HISTORY
The story of Georgia's McIntosh County in the 1970s, and the struggle for civil rights, led by a passionate African American man. An engaging, eye-opening account of race relations in the South.
(USS86, $14.00)
Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom
William S. McFeely
HISTORY
A history of the people of Georgia's Sapelo Island.
(USS78, $11.00)
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)
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island
Cornelia Walker Bailey
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An evocative memoir from a native of Sapelo Island, which gives a glimpse into the Geechee (or Gullah) heritage of the region. Cornelia Walker Bailey does more than tell her story, she tells the story of a nearly forgotten people.
(USS77, $14.95)
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)
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain Dubignon of Jekyll Island
Martha L. Keber
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A history of 18th-century sea-trade and a biography of Christophe Poulain Dubignon, a Frenchman whose adventures took him from his home in Brittany into the service of the French India Company and finally to a life on Georgia's Jekyll Island.
(USS368, $39.95)
Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Ball, a young privileged white man, embarks on a journey to uncover his family's slave-owning past in this probing, emotional memoir, the result of extensive research and travels in search of the descendents of the Ball-family slaves.
(USS25, $17.95)
Literary Charleston, A Lowcountry Reader
Curtis Worthington
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
LITERATURE
A lovingly edited anthology of writing about Charleston, arranged chronologically and including heavyweights such as Henry James and Edgar Allen Poe, as well as less known writers.
(USS18, $24.95)
Literary Savannah
Patrick Allen
LITERATURE
An anthology of fiction and non-fiction set in Savannah, portraying the city, its people and culture. With contributions by Henry James, Margaret Mitchell, and Flannery O'Connor.
(USS20, $16.95)
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)
Savannah
Eugenia Price
LITERATURE
The first volume of the Savannah Quartet series, this novel documents thirteen years of Savannah's 19th-century history as seen through the eyes of a young orphan.
(USS121, $7.99)
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)
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks.
(USE262, $19.95)
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