Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles

Title Details

Pages: 288

Illustrations: 42 b&w photos and 1 drawing

Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in

Formats

Paperback

Pub Date: 10/01/1981

ISBN: 9-780-8203-0558-5

List Price: $22.95

Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles

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  • Description

Since it first appeared in 1956, Mrs. Vanstory's rich narrative of the barrier islands from Ossabaw to Cumberland—and the mainland towns along the way—has become the standard popular history of Georgia's golden coast.

Thoroughly revised and with over forty new illustrations, this edition traces the crucial and colorful role these islands have played from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Home, at one time or another, to the American Indians, the French, the Spanish, and the English; to buccaneers, friars, and priests; to Puritans and Scottish Highlanders; to slave traders, planters, soldiers, statesmen, and millionaires, these islands are as rich in history as they are in natural beauty.

Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles now takes the reader through the years from General James Oglethorpe to President Jimmy Carter, unfolding the stories of the lives that have touched, or been touched by, the golden isles of Georgia.

About the Author/Editor

BURNETTE VANSTORY (1902-2000) lived on St. Simons Island for more than forty years.