{"product_id":"sapelo-buddy-sullivan-9780820350165","title":"Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eSapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state's greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature charac-teristics that have made it a locus for scientific research and ecological conservation. Beginning in 1949, when then Sapelo owner R. J. Reynolds Jr. founded the Sapelo Island Research Foundation and funded the research of biologist Eugene Odum, UGA's study of the island's fragile wetlands helped foster the modern ecology movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith this book, Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of the island's history, including Native American inhabitants; Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of the innovative Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island after the Civil War; Sapelo's two twentieth-century millionaire owners, Howard E. Coffin and R. J. Reynolds Jr., and the development of the University of Georgia Marine Institute; the state of Georgia acquisition; and the transition of Sapelo's multiple African American communities into one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSapelo Island's history also offers insights into the unique cultural circumstances of the residents of the community of Hog Hammock. Sullivan provides in-depth examination of the important correlation between Sapelo's culturally significant Geechee communities and the succession of private and state owners of the island. The book's thematic approach is one of \"people and place\" how prevailing environmental conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color photographs of the island as well as a selection of archival images and maps, \u003ci\u003eSapelo\u003c\/i\u003e documents a unique island history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Buddy Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820350168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820350165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.25h x 9.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Buddy Sullivan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44045037207807,"sku":"9780820350165","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1e53d47-be71-422e-8cac-d48384abd65c.jpg?v=1684976361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sapelo-buddy-sullivan-9780820350165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}