Geographic Orientation/Georgia
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Berry College: A History
$46.95 Add to cartIllustrated with more than a hundred photographs, this is the most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia. Ranging from Berry’s modest beginnings in
- Author: Mathis, Doyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0820327581
- Language: English
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$31.99 Add to cartThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll I… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1540240096
- Language: English
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The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or in Hell
$19.99 Add to cartGeorgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts the tragic tale of the Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900.
On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company’s Engine #7 and its passengers were gree
- Series: Disasters (Saddleback)
- Author: Wells, Jeffery C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629826X
- Language: English
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The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth.
In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to no
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Petulla, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119008
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia
$43.95 Add to cartAbundantly illustrated with more than 400 color photographs and 200 detailed drawings, this comprehensive guide to the state’s rare and endangered plants provides photographs and botanical illustratio
- Author: Chafin, Linda G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0977962105
- Language: English
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Georgia: A State History
$26.99 Add to cartGeorgia: A State History, opens a window on our rich and sometimes tragic past and reveals to all of us the fascinating complexity of what it means to be a Georgian.
Georgia’s past has diverged from t
- Series: Making of America (Arcadia)
- Author: Sullivan, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0738585890
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price
$15.95 Add to cartJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family’s Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1577363329
- Language: English
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The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf’s Most Prestigious Tournament
$19.99 Add to cartThe Masters. For any golf fan, the words evoke the immortal greats of the game and their quest for the most prized trophy of all — the green jacket of Augusta National Golf Club.
But behind the lege… [more below]- Author: Owen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0684867516
- Language: English
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Georgia Place Names from Jot-em-Down to Doctortown
$31.99 Add to cartEver wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone’s throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can’t be…that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can’t help ponderi… [more below]
- Author: Kaemmerlen, Cathy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1540239861
- Language: English
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Savannah Impressions
$12.95 Add to cart- Author: Helfrick, Robb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1560372230
- Language: English
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Georgia Tech
$31.99 Add to cartFrom humble beginnings as a small technological institute that opened in 1888, Georgia Tech has become one of the nation’s top-10-ranked public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report rank… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Hild, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1540235556
- Language: English
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Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island
$38.95 Add to cartSapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state’s greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natur
- Author: Sullivan, Buddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0820350168
- Language: English
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The Seasons of Cumberland Island
$45.95 Add to cartCumberland Island is the largest and most beloved of the Georgia barrier islands. Although it can be reached only by boat, more than forty thousand people make the trip each year to enjoy the island’s
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Whitehead, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0820324973
- Language: English
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Savannah College of Art and Design: Restoration of an Architectural Heritage
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1979, a small art college with 71 students opened its doors in a renovated 19th-century building in the urban heart of colonial Savannah, Georgia. One of the most historic cities on the eastern sea… [more below]
- Author: Pinkerton, Connie Capozzola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 27 2004
- ISBN10: 1531611753
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
$50.95 Add to cartDuring the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose me
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820319287
- Language: English
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St. Simons Island
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the earliest tribes who hunted and fished to the tourists who relaxed on the beaches, St. Simons Island has been part of the landscape of Georgia’s coast.
When Gen. James E. Oglethorpe established
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Morris, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0738515868
- Language: English
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Minerals of Georgia: Their Properties and Occurrences
$38.95 Add to cartMinerals of Georgia presents an illustrated, alphabetized record of every mineral (or mineral group) identified in the state. Under each entry is a county-by-county listing of every occurrence known,
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Santamaria, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 082034558X
- Language: English
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
$18.99 Add to cartWelcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all,… [more below]
- Author: White, Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0306818027
- Language: English
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Jeffrey’s Favorite 13 Ghost Stories: From Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi
$16.95 Add to cartThis is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Windham, Kathryn Tucker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1588384314
- Language: English
