EARLY DAYS ON THE GEORGIA TIDEWATER: THE STORY OF MCINTOSH COUNTY & SAPELO

Buddy Sullivan

ISBN 10: 0962580805 / ISBN 13: 9780962580802

Published by Mcintosh County Board, US, 1990

Signed and inscribed by author at half-title page. Navy cloth over boards with gilt particulars and decortion to spine and front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light foxing to lower edge and light soiling to top edge. Decorative endpages are clean and bright. Boards have light soiling near title at front board and top edge of rear board. Bump to fore edge of front board, corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light soiling to edges of spine and top edge of rear board. Light creasing to extremities and two small closed tears to top edge of front cover. Seller Inventory # 64950

Synopsis:

Author Buddy Sullivan's "Early Days on the Georgia A New Revised Edition" represents a complete recasting of a book issued under the same title in 1990, and reprinted five times. Sullivan is a prominent coastal Georgia historian and lecturer with nineteen titles to his credit. This new edition of "Early Days" incorporates all the material in the original version, in addition to considerable new information based on the author’s recent research. Additionally, the new "Early Days" has been reformatted to reflect improved chapter sequence and content to provide a smoother, more continuous narrative flow than that of the original edition. In essence, the revised edition is a completely new book that will be of improved utility to researchers, students, and the general reader. "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" is a comprehensive history of Sapelo Island, Darien and McIntosh County, Georgia, as well as a general overview of the history of coastal Georgia, focusing on Glynn, Liberty and Bryan counties, Savannah, and St. Simons and St. Catherines islands. It covers the full scope of coastal Guale Indians, Spanish missionaries, and early settlement by English colonists; the rice and cotton economy during the plantation era built upon the labors of enslaved people; Civil War events, including the controversial burning of Darien; the timber industry, and the associated shipping activity that made Darien a leading center for the export of pine lumber for forty years; the emerging commercial oyster and shrimping fisheries; and the impact of millionaires, scientists and resident African Americans on the 20th century history of the region, especially Sapelo Island. Significantly, the new edition of "Early Days" relates the story of the area’s African American communities, particularly the developing Geechee settlements at Sapelo, Harris Neck and Darien in the years from the end of the Civil War through the 20th century. The author’s thematic approach is that of establishing the important connection between the ecology of the area with its history. This recurring theme will be apparent throughout the book in an analysis of just how people utilized the environmental circumstances unique to their region and adapted them to virtually every aspect of their lives and livelihood for 300 years. "Early Days" is thus essentially a story of land use and soils, tides, salt marshes, river hydrology, weather, and how these conditions impacted the agricultural, commercial and social development of the region. Of equal significance is the use people have made of the tidal waterways and fresh-water river systems, giving the new edition a distinctly maritime flavor. "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" is documented through source notes and an expanded index, and includes photographs of places and people, and localized maps that provide the geographical context necessary for an understanding of the economic, maritime and cultural dynamics of the coast.

Bibliographic Details

Title: EARLY DAYS ON THE GEORGIA TIDEWATER: THE ...
Publisher: Mcintosh County Board, US
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 4th Edition