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THE GREAT SEA ISLAND STORM OF 1893 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bill Marscher, Fran Marscher
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Buy New: $16.00
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 148
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0865548676
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.799041
EAN: 9780865548671
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Product Description
In a single terrifying night near the end of the 19th century, a gigantic hurricane ripped through the islands and lowlands of Georgia and South Carolina, drowning 2,000 or more and leaving 70,000 destitute. Most of the victims were former slaves and descendants of slaves, "Gullahs." With no government involvement, but through steady appeals to those outside of the devastated region, Clara Barton of the American Red Cross and others spent most of the next year in the tedious recovery effort. More than a century later, the horrors of that experience come to mind whenever a hurricane spins offshore.
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 Nice little book on forgotten storm March 6, 2009
J D (Savannah, GA Someone save me!)
I live on Wilmington Island, GA and was curious about this storm I had heard one or two vague comments about. This book is quick to read, mostly newspaper reprints. The only book I could find on the subject. Still, it deals more with SC than GA so it wasn't exactly what I was expecting. Recommended though for anyone interested in this storm.
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