cherokee publishing 2005 (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 99pp. Light wear to covers otherwise unread and very good indeed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An excellent book fore understanding the settlement of Georgia from the Creek Indian point of view.' - The Book Report.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the story of the lives and political careers of three men - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton - who attained prominence within that struggle and who acquired undying fame by representing Georgia in the congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the little band of English colonists who arrived with James Edward Oglethorpe set foot upon the soil of Georgia in 1733, they found themselves in a strange and alien land. The hardships which they endured in establishing their settlement in the virgin forest were eased by the friendship of the aged Indian chieftain Tomochichi, who immediately became their friend.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 50 Georgia Stories, an anthology by thirty-five Georgia authors, preserves the richness and color of a rural heritage which recedes a little farther every day. A True Treasury of Georgiana.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fiercely loyal to his adopted South, young Isaac Hermann, at twenty-one, joined the Washington Rifles which rendezvoused with the First Georgia Regiment near Laurel Hill, Virginia in 1861. His accent drew considerable attention, whereupon he mounted a nearby stump and announced: 'Gentlemen, it seems that I am eliciting a great deal of curiosity; now all of you will know me as Isaac Hermann, a native Frenchman, who came to assist you to fight the Yankees.' Almost fifty years later Capt. Hermann was urged by his many friends to write his experiences while serving with three branches of the Confederate Army. He had seen action with the First Georgia Regiment in Virginia under Generals Henry R. Jackson and T. J. 'Stonewall' Jackson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus tales, had an interest in preserving the romance and history of his native Georgia. His most notable effort in this area reached fruition in 1896 with the publication of Stories of Georgia, a collection of tales of the state's early days and of some of the men and women who shaped its destiny. Today, more than one hundred years later, the timeless appeal of these stories makes them an interesting and valuable item of Georgiana.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recounts the settlement of coastal Georgia, the development of the plantation aristocracy and the dreary days of War and Reconstruction. Chapter treatment given to: Guale, New Inverness, Frederica, The Revolution, Saint Simons Island, Sapelo, The Eden of Georgia, Wreck of the 'Pulaski,' Broughton: The Rice Island, Fanny Kemble, Hopeton, and Halcyon Days.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The America of Carl Sandburg tells of the effect of the American tradition on the poet and of his impact upon America. It is a study in depth, showing the unconscious Scandinavian influences, the conscious French influences, and the effect on Sandburg's writings, both poetry and prose, of Lincoln, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and, of course, Whitman. The author develops a clear picture of Sandburg's place in American literature by comparison and contrast with other major contemporaries and delineates the emergence of the Sandburg image abroad.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anyone reared in rural or small-town Georgia before World War II will remember much of this material. The reader who is unfamiliar with the rural South, or too young to have experienced the joys of a pre-1940 Georgia youth, will find this book to be a collection of the oral traditions which have almost disappeared. Georgia's rapid development into an industrialized society has made this publication of the folklore papers collected by the Georgia Writers' Project 1936-1940 all the more important.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This account of Georgia's oldest 'lost' towns spans the years following the first settlement on the Colony's coast to the advent of the railroad in the western part of the state. It contains valuable historical data on the events leading to the establishment and eventual decline of communities which in their day were important strongholds ia a region which still belonged for the most part to one of several Indian nations.