Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh County and Sapelo : Being a Documented Narrative Account, With Particular Attention to th [Hardcover]

Buddy Sullivan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 858 pages
• Publisher: Mcintosh County Board (November 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962580805
• ISBN-13: 978-0962580802
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,686,227 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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, January 25, 2000

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Susie Headley (...a world of my own!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh County and Sapelo : Being a Documented Narrative Account, With Particular Attention to th (Hardcover)

Buddy seems to get "into" the people he writes about... he gives them substance, and dimension. He brings you into each generation he writes about. You almost feel the wind on your face, and the sea at your feet, with his discriptions. He goes beyond name, date, and place. He brings you to a point where you feel you are living the times. He not only goes into detail about a person, he goes beyond that person, to someone who was touched by that person, and recounts it. Therefore, we learn about them from two points of view. We learn what he finds by exploring a "paper trail", and we learn about what he finds from the things that have been passed down. I will tell you... I have never been as impressed about a book written about a town or place, or people, the way his book impressed me. His book made me want to go out and "explore"... and I did! I have learned more about the "out of the way places" here, in McIntosh Co GA,in his book, than anywhere else. His books are also extremely helpful where Genealogy in being researched. Buddy's books seem to make you feel like he is an "I want to know because..." type of person. And they don't leave you "hanging." He is very through.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Historical compilation for the coastal area!, September 16, 2006

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J.N. (Townsend, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh County and Sapelo : Being a Documented Narrative Account, With Particular Attention to th (Hardcover)

This book is a treasure trove of historical information on the entire McIntosh County area. If you live in/visit occasionally/or are interested in McIntosh county Georgia this book is a MUST HAVE.

Although to the passerby McIntosh County seems like a small rural coastal county in southern georgia, with not much to see yet (but about to develop) IT IS NOT -- McIntosh County may be one of the most historical counties in the entire south, "There's been a lot of water under that bridge." And this book will reveal all of it to a good detail!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best historical account of coastal georgia, June 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh County and Sapelo : Being a Documented Narrative Account, With Particular Attention to th (Hardcover)

Butty's account of coastal georgia is like walking through the pages of time. It is by far the best book on coastal georgia. Thanks buddy!