The “Sherlock Holmes of the Georgia coast” according to Janisse Ray, in his forthcoming Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast, Anthony J. Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these traces, both modern and fossil, tell us. Below…
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act. To mark this important milestone we have put out a new edition of Reid Harris’s And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia’s Marshlands Was Fought—and Won. Below is President Carter’s foreword outlining just why the law was so important. Additionally,…
Catch up on your reading with the UGA Press Summer Sale and get 40% off all books during the month of June! Today we’re highlighting books on the state of Georgia. Take a look at some of our best Georgia titles below, and use code 08JUNE40 at checkout to get 40% off. You can buy…
On Friday evening, November 16, The Book Lady Bookstore, The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Coastal WildScapes, and The UGA Willson Center of Humanities and Arts will present a special lecture as part of the Skidaway Institute’s Evening @ Skidaway Series. André Joseph Gallant, author of…
New this week on Annotations: André Gallant at the Decatur Book Festival. Gallant is the author of A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster. He uses the bivalve as a jumping-off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area…
In honor of Earth Day the University of Georgia Press interviewed Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly, editors of the forthcoming Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast, due out this July. Paul S. Sutter is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of…
The Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books series, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press, has been named as an honoree of the inaugural One Hundred Miles 100 for its contribution to the preservation of the Georgia coastline. One Hundred Miles is a 501(c)3 coastal advocacy organization with a mission of protecting, preserving, and enhancing the…
by Evelyn Sherr There is something curious about the range of the plain chachalaca, a drab olive-brown pheasant native to Mexico and Central America. There are a couple of spots where this non-migrating bird suddenly appears well outside of its expected distribution. One is in Texas, the other on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Both of these ‘out-of-range’…
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