Bücher der Reihe Wormsloe Foundation Publication

Explores how hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia - South Carolina seaboard. This book weaves the Lowcountry's long social, political, and economic history with firsthand reports and data accumulated by the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to the uncertainties faced by its Civil War survivors in 1865. It shows how war, disease, market forces, fire, and other circumstances left their marks on the city and its people.

A broad-based coalition of supporters came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was a first-in-the-US bill to save the marshes of a state from mining and development. This book is the history of this legislative act, as told by the leader of the coalition, Reid Harris.