Maxcy Gregg's Sporting Journals 1842-1858
SOUTH CAROLINIAN MAXCY GREGG was a lawyer, a classically educated scholar with mastery of many languages, a politician, and a volunteer soldier. But his primary interest was the natural world, especially birds, more than 50 varieties of which he must have identified. Gregg was a self-instructed genuine expert and avid investigator of birdlife and wild plants and he had an astronomical observatory built into his house. His sporting journals, long neglected sources of antebellum Southern history, were meticulous and are meticulously edited by Suzanne Parfitt Johnson. Gregg's recorded trips cover most of South Carolina, portions of neighbori…
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Weitere Autoren: Johnson, Suzanne Parfitt (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-947660-25-0
- EAN: 9781947660250
- Produktnummer: 32968432
- Verlag: Green Altar Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.8 cm 532 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 532
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