University of Georgia Press

Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service (A Friends Fund Publication)

George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant’s photographs; unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant’s name. Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images and a …

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A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South (A Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies Publication)

When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. Jordan’s daughter, Kathleen–with the help of her brothers and mother–took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia–the result of this posthumous father-daughter collaboration–chronicles Hamilton …

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Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest

In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof’s engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and insects whose lives depend on it―and who, in …

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You All Spoken Here (Brown Thrasher Books)

We invite folks from the outer precincts and other foreign parts to lend an ear to what four centuries of southern talk have wrought, Roy Wilder Jr. writes in You All Spoken Here. This delightful book preserves and explains the South’s linguistic heritage with some three thousand specimens of the region’s most picturesque, metaphorical, and gloriously inventive speech.Wondering …

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