Island passages : an illustrated history of Jekyll Island, Georgia /
Written in a lively, accessible style by Jingle Davis and lavishly illustrated with photographs by Benjamin Galland, Island Passages is a solid work of public history that presents a carefully researched document of Jekyll Island, Georgia, from its geologic beginning as a shifting sand spit to its p...
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of Jekyll (from c. 50,000 years ago)
- St. Andrews Sound
- Jekyll natives and newcomers (from c. 12,000 years ago to 1735)
- The island refuge
- The struggle for Jekyll (1736-1800)
- Christophe Anne Poulain du Bignon
- Jekyll's French accent (1801-1857)
- The last American slave ship
- From Africa to Jekyll (1858-1885)
- From riches to ruin to riches
- The Jekyll Island Club (1886-1947)
- Thompson's white elephant
- Jekyll Island State Park (1948-1986)
- The turnaround begins
- Jekyll then and now (1987-present)
- Afterword: The ghosts of a Golden Isle.