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Discover the old--and new--American South hand-in-hand with two leading authorities!
This travel guide offers a unique eleven-day tour through centuries of Southern history, starting in Atlanta, then looping eastward by the Okefenokee Swamp, to the coastal islands and Savannah, and ending in Charleston. Drive through the South of cotton, indigo, rice, and pine plantations with this eye-opening book, and you'll find out just what makes this region such a special place. De Vorsey and Rice comment on everything that's likely to catch your attention--from the lay of the land to the taste of the food, from round towns to square farms, from peaches, pecans, and peanuts to pine barrens and barrier islands, from antebellum mansions to freedmen's villages.
The Plantation South: Atlanta to Savannah and Charleston makes the best of traveling companions: compact, informed, and lively. You'll want to read and reread it as you plan, take, and relive your trip!
Louis DeVorsey and Marion Rice are professors emeriti of geography at the University of Georgia and longtime scholars of the historical geography of the American South.
A volume in Touring North America, a new series of thirteen guides by geographers for the curious traveler. The guides provide stop-by-stop tours to the most interesting places in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. They tell you what to see--and what it means! This innovative series, specially commissioned for the International Geographical Congress 1992 and featuring maps by National Geographic Society cartographers, will be invaluable to the visitor and the native alike.
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- PublisherRutgers University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0813518725
- ISBN 13 9780813518725
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages193
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