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Author : William Byrd
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp written by William Byrd and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William 1674-1744 Byrd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022430549
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp written by William 1674-1744 Byrd and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1728, this pamphlet by William Byrd offers a detailed account of the Dismal Swamp, a vast and foreboding wetland on the border of Virginia and North Carolina. In addition to describing the swamp's physical features and wildlife, the pamphlet also includes Byrd's bold proposal to drain the swamp, a project that he believed would greatly benefit the region's economy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Byrd William 1674-1744
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781348216148
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp written by Byrd William 1674-1744 and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William Byrd
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ISBN 13 : 9781332119400
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp (Classic Reprint) written by William Byrd and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733. A Progress to the Mines...in 1732. An Essay on bulk Tobacco. Miscellaneous Papers. The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esq." Edited by John Spencer Bassett. Illustrated. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. lxxxviii, 461 pages. It was through the enterprise of Edmund Ruffin that the Westover Manuscripts were first given to the public, as the appendix to volume 9 of the Farmers' Register. This appendix was also issued separately, and is best known in the separate form; it is the first of the three editions listed. In the History of the Dividing Line is the journal of the survey of the North Carolina boundary through the Dismal Swamp. This was written in 1728. The "Description of the Dismal, with the Proposal to drain it," as reprinted in this present volume, was written sometime between 1728 and 1737. This is determined by the author's suggestion of the Earl of Orkney, who died in 1737, as one who should be invited to encourage subscriptions to shares of the company. The text of this reprint is from the Farmers' Register, volume 4, pages 521 to 524. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830801
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swamplands written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet's survival might depend on it.
Author : David W. Johnston
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922423
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Ornithology in Virginia written by David W. Johnston and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Host to a large and diverse bird population as well as a long human history, Virginia is arguably the birthplace of ornithology in North America. David W. Johnston's History of Ornithology in Virginia, the result of over a decade of research, is the first book to address this fascinating element of the state's natural history. Tertiary-era fossils show that birds inhabited Virginia as early as 65 million years ago. Their first human observers were the region's many Indian tribes and, later, colonists on Roanoke Island and in Jamestown. Explorers pushing westward contributed further to the development of a conception of birds that was distinctively American. By the 1900s planter-farmers, naturalists, and government employees had amassed bird records from the Barrier Islands and the Dismal Swamp to the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. The modern era saw the emergence of ornithological organizations and game laws, as well as increasingly advanced studies of bird distribution, migration pathways, and breeding biology. Johnston shows us how ornithology in Virginia evolved from observations of wondrous creatures to a sophisticated science recognizing some 435 avian species. David W. Johnston taught ornithology at the University of Virginia's Mountain Lake Biological Station for nearly two decades and has edited numerous ecological studies as well as the Journal of Field Ornithology and Ornithological Monographs.
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Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book The North Carolina Coastal Zone and Its Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Sayers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813055245
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Desolate Place for a Defiant People written by Daniel Sayers and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198217336X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fen, Bog and Swamp written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment-by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands-the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is "an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important" (Bill McKibben)"--
Author : Kirstin L. Squint
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173517
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swamp Souths written by Kirstin L. Squint and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical introduction and afterword, Swamp Souths introduces new frameworks for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with an emphasis on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime. The volume analyzes canonical writers such as William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, but it also investigates contemporary literary works by Randall Kenan and Karen Russell, the films Beasts of the Southern Wild and My Louisiana Love, and music ranging from swamp rock and zydeco to Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. Navigating a complex assemblage of places and ecosystems, the contributors argue with passion and critical rigor for considering anew the literary and cultural work that swamps do. This dynamic collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and political crisis.
