Authors:Wilbur H. Duncan, Marion B. Duncan,
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Publication
Keywords: states, united, southeastern, trees
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-05-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820322717
ISBN-13: 9780820322711

This popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly pine or red mulberry to the rare Pinckneya (fever-tree) or goat willow. The guide treats more than 300 species--every one known to occur in the region, from the Coastal Plain to the highest elevations. Included are trees native to the region as well as those introduced and now reproducing. Helpful features include easy identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, an introductory section on basic leaf, flower, and stem struc

Author: Anita Zaleski Weinraub
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Publication
Keywords: wormsloe, foundation, publication, history, together, quilts, piecing, georgia
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0820328995
ISBN-13: 9780820328997

This abundantly illustrated volume arises out of the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project, the most authoritative survey of quilts and quiltmakers ever undertaken in the state. Georgia Quilts showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state from the nineteenth century to the present and reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture. From plain bed coverings of fabric scraps to exquisitely wrought pieces made for the "best bed," each of the 120 examples featured in the book tells its own story of abundance or want, peace or war, tradi

Author: June Hall McCash
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Publication
Keywords: wormsloe, foundation, publication, reconstruction, prehistory, island, years, jekyll
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-08-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0820324477
ISBN-13: 9780820324470

From the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island, here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island’s early history. Much of what defines our view of the place dates from the Jekyll Island Club era. Founded in 1886, the Club was the private resort of America’s moneyed elite, including the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Pulitzers. In her new book that ranges from pre-Columbian times through the Civil War and its aftermath, June Hall McCash shows how the environment, human conflict, and a desire for refuge shaped the island long before the Club’s founding.Jekyll’s earliest

Author: Mart A. Stewart
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Publication
Keywords: coast, wormsloe, foundation, publications, georgia, landscape, suffers, groe, life, labor, nature
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2002-12-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820324590
ISBN-13: 9780820324593

"What Nature Suffers to Groe" explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain between 1680 and 1920. Each of the successive communities on the coast--the philanthropic and imperialistic experiment of the Georgia Trustees, the plantation culture of rice and sea island cotton planters and their slaves, and the postbellum society of wage-earning freedmen, lumbermen, vacationing industrialists, truck farmers, river engineers, and New South promoters--developed unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique

Author: Giff Beaton
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Keywords: foundation, nature, book, wormsloe, southeast, damselflies, georgia, dragonflies
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0820327956
ISBN-13: 9780820327952

Visit any pond on a summer day and the air will be alive with dragonflies and damselflies--shimmering aerobatic daredevils that dart above the water and even into nearby fields and woodlands. Organized for easy use in the field, this abundantly illustrated guide, with more than 400 color photographs, is the first to cover Georgia’s dragonflies and damselflies (odonates). It details more than 150 species--species that are also the ones most likely to be seen throughout the U.S. Southeast north of Florida.The guide first explains dragonfly and damselfly body parts, taxonomy, life cycles, a

Authors:Charles T. Bryson, Michael S. DeFelice,
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Keywords: nature, book, foundation, wormsloe, south, weeds
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0820330469
ISBN-13: 9780820330464

Weeds threaten the safe, efficient, and sustainable production of food, feed, fiber, and biofuel throughout the world. Featuring more than fifteen hundred full-color photographs, this handy guide provides essential information on four hundred of the most troublesome weedy and invasive plants found in the southern United States.Drawing on the expertise of more than forty weed scientists and botanists, the guide identifies each plant at various stages of its life and offers useful details about its origin, habitat, morphology, biology, distribution, and known toxic properties. The book also incl

Author: Robert V Levine
Publisher: ONEWORLD PUBLICATION
Keywords: time, geography
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1851684654
ISBN-13: 9781851684656