From Beautiful Zion to Red Bird Creek: A history of Bryan County, Georgia ; including chronicles of the Old Canoochee-Ogeechee River country [Hardcover]

Buddy Sullivan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 350 pages
• Publisher: McIntosh County Board of Commissioners; 1st edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967103800
• ISBN-13: 978-0967103808
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,643,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Buddy Sullivan is a noted author and lecturer specialising in Georgia state history and coastal Georgia history. He has 18 books on historical subjects in print (as of 2010). His well-received Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower, will be reissued by the University of Georgia Press in summer 2010. Sullivan's latest book is High Water on the Bar: An Operational Perspective of a Tidewater Timber Port, 1870-1920, which relates the story of timbering, sawmills and the coastal shipping trade in the postbellum and early 20th century periods. Sullivan has another important book in print, All Under Bank: Roswell King and Plantation Management in Tidewater Georgia, 1819-1854. Another of his books, Georgia: A State History, 1733-2000, has reached a nationwide audience and was researched and written in cooperation with the Georgia Historical Society.
Buddy Sullivan is a native of Savannah and McIntosh County, Georgia, and has had a lifelong interest in the culture and history of the coast which he traces back to his ancestral roots in Charleston, SC and Worth County in south Georgia. He has been manager of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve since 1993, following a 15-year in newspaper journalism.