Lowcountry Hurricanes

Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore

Walter J. Fraser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2009
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-3333-5 (ISBN)

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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.

At once sobering and thrilling, this illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia - South Carolina seaboard. Walter J. Fraser Jr. smoothly 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.

Walter J. Fraser Jr. is professor emeritus in the Department of History at Georgia Southern University. His many books include Savannah in the Old South (Georgia), Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War, and Charleston! Charleston!

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2009
Reihe/Serie	Wormsloe Foundation Publication
Zusatzinfo	63 b&w photos, 2 tables, 1 map
Verlagsort	Georgia
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-8203-3333-6 / 0820333336
ISBN-13	978-0-8203-3333-5 / 9780820333335
Zustand	Neuware