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Tales from Georgia's Gnat Line TABLE OF CONTENTS From the Director “The Showy Town of Savannah” ..........1 Dear Reader, John D. Duncan & Sandra L. Underwood Florida Explored .....................................2 As a young man, Herman Melville tried teaching school but soon Thomas Peter Bennett traveled the South Seas and had several adventures. His experiences A Natural History of Cumberland Island, led him to write about islands he visited in novels like Omoo and Georgia ...................................................3 Typee—both of which were bestsellers. He was an early success. He Carol Ruckdeschel (new in paper) followed those works with other sea-travel adventures like Redburn “Forward My Brave Boys!” ....................4 and White-Jacket. Melville worked on a whale ship for a while and Todd Cathey & Gary Waddey (new in paper) became familiar with the tragedy of the whale ship Essex. His next Camp Oglethorpe ..................................5 book would be a monumental flop. Moby-Dick failed miserably. Stephen Hoy & William Smith What had begun as a promising writing career turned sour and The Last Orator for the Millhands ........6 sales of his books would never be enough to make a living. The last Jack Roper fifteen years of his productive life he spent working in a New York An Edgefield Planter and His orldW .....7 James O. Farmer Jr., editor Customs position to provide for his family. Melville thought Moby-Dick was his masterpiece. Through the Needle’s Eye ......................8 Linda Bledsoe And, it was. Moby-Dick is the novel that all other novels are measured by. It Tales from Georgia’s Gnat Line .............9 Larry Walker is considered by many as the original—and still unsurpassed—Great American Novel. Your Autobiography ............................10 Kelly Cherry Great writing is its own reward. Great books are not measured Summoning Shades ...............................11 by dollars or even use. Writers write because that is who they are and R. T. Smith what they do. The Incarnational Art of Flannery In his book Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick says that O’Connor ................................................................ 12 Moby-Dick is “the one book that deserves to be called our American Christine Bieber Lake (new in paper) bible. As individuals trying to find our way through the darkness, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet ......13 as citizens of a nation trying to live up to the ideals set forth in our E. Jane Doering & Ruthann K. Johansen constitution, we need, more than ever before, Moby-Dick.” Untold Stories, Unheard Voices ..........14 Our “American bible”? “Ideals set forth in our constitution”? Jan Whitt Moby-Dick? Power and the People ................................... 15 On August 1, 2019, we will celebrate the 200th birthday of a Charlotte C. S. Thomas, editor writer who could not make a living on his writing in his own lifetime. Baptists in Early North America— Many people in the nineteenth-century missed Melville and Moby- Meherrin, Virginia, Volume VI ........... 16 Dick. What are you missing that the world will be celebrating more Fred Anderson, editor than one hundred years from now? Baptist Theology ................................. 17 James Leo Garrett (new in paper) Better start reading. Bestselling Titles Still in Stock........ 18-19 Fall/Winter 2018 Releases ....................20 Spring/Summer 2018 Releases .............21 Selected Backlist by Genre .............22–28 Marc Jolley 2 January 2019 On the Cover: Godsey Administration Building, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia New Release 69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 1 John D. Duncan, a twelfth-generation “The Showy Town Charlestonian, came to Savannah to teach history at what later became of Savannah” Armstrong State University. He and his The Story of the Architect William Jay wife have shared three passions: the John D. Duncan and restoration of their 1869 Monterey Square townhouse; the creation and Sandra L. Underwood operation of an antique print and book shop; and research and travel to document the life and work of the architect William Jay. Sandra L. Underwood is professor emerita of Art History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, located in St. Mary’s City, the site of the founding of the Maryland colony. Retirement brought her and her husband to Savannah where they could indulge The influence and legacy of an English architect their shared interests in art and in the early nineteenth-century South architecture. TITLES OF INTEREST In December 1817, the English architect William Jay arrived at the busy port of Savannah, Georgia. In the coming four and a half years, he designed several public buildings and private residences in Savannah and a few structures in Charleston, South Carolina. All of his work was remarkable; yet, soon after his departure in 1822, only vague recollections of Jay survived in Savannah, and in Charleston he was forgotten altogether. Early in the twentieth century, Jay’s work was observed by a few prominent Suffer and Grow Murder in the architectural historians, and accounts of his life and labors began to appear. But Strong State Capitol none of these offered satisfying answers to these questions: Just who was this The Life of Ella The Biography of Lt. Gertrude Clanton Col. Robert Augustus man? Where had he come from, and what of his family and friends? Why did he Thomas, 1834–1907 Alston (1832–1879) Carolyn Newton Curry Pamela Chase Hain pursue the profession of architecture, and where and how was he trained? Why Paperback | $19.00t | P508 Hardback | $35.00t | H865 did he venture to Georgia, the last of the English colonies; and why did he leave 978-0-88146-532-7 978-0-88146-430-6 after such a short period of time? And, why had his elegant work not been more noticed in the history of American architecture? This new biography of Jay describes his place in a vibrant but volatile world. The English Regency was marked by the wealth and power of empire, the accomplishments of the industrial revolution, and the emergence of a vast underclass trapped in grinding poverty. Jay’s father, the most popular preacher The Tifts of House Proud of the day, was a leader in evangelical campaigns to bring relief to the poor, to Georgia A Social History Connecticut Yankees of Atlanta foster universal literacy, and to abolish slavery. In this tumultuous environment, in King Cotton’s Interiors,1880–1919 Jay made his way. He suffered many disappointments, but he gained remarkable Court Lori Eriksen Rush John D. Fair Hardback | $45.00t | H883 achievements, not least of which was his lasting imprint on “showy Savannah.” Hardback | $35.00t | H817 978-0-88146-476-4 978-0-88146-218-0 The Old Governor’s Mansion Georgia’s First Executive Residence MARCH 2019 | BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY James C. Turner Paperback | $16.00t | P466 6 x 9 | 464 pp. | Hardback $40.00t | 978-0-88146-689-8 | H965 | Bibliography | Index | Illustrations 978-0-88146-444-3 2 Mercer UNIVERSITY PRESS SPRING/SUMMER 2019 New Release Thomas Peter Bennett, a Florida native, is the author of many Florida Explored articles and books about topics now The Philadelphia Connection in Bartram’s synthesized in Florida Explored: The Tracks Philadelphia Connection in Bartram’s Tracks, which is based on his work Thomas Peter Bennett at Harvard, Florida State University, Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, South Florida Museum, as well as his extensive travels in Bartram’s tracks. A group biography of the most eminent American scientists of the nineteenth century This unique natural history exploration of Florida by members and correspondents of America’s first research natural history museum— TITLES OF INTEREST Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences—reveals the science of discovery and collection of unknown plants, animals, fossils, and artifacts of ancient peoples. The early naturalists, Thomas Say, Titian Peale, Thomas Nuttall, John James Audubon, John LeConte, John Torrey, Hardy Croom, Alvan Chapman, Asa Gray, Clarence Moore, Henry Fowler, Henry Pilsbry, Francis Harper, and others were inspired to explore Florida in the tracks of William Bartram, the A Restless Fires The Flower colonial explorer of British East and West Florida and author in 1791 of Travels. Young John Muir’s Hunter and the Thousand Mile People The godfather of the Academy, Bartram was elected to membership shortly Walk to the Gulf in William Bartram in after its founding in 1812 by his students. 1867–68 the Native American James B. Hunt Southeast The discoveries and collections—new plants and animals, fossils, and Paperback | $20.00t | P457 Matthew Jennings, 978-0-88146-393-4 editor artifacts of ancient peoples—made by Bartram and those who followed him Paperback | $19.00t | P485 created databases for research and understanding Florida’s natural heritage, 978-0-88146-483-2 current, and future ecosystems. The Flower Seeker An Epic Poem of Written in the narrative style, notes provide annotations and details for William Bartram novices and academic references for students and scholars interested in specific Philip Lee Williams Hardback | $75.00s | H807 areas such as botany, ornithology, and Florida natural history. 978-0-88146-208-1 Hardback | $55.00t | H820 978-0-88146-228-9 Paperback | $25.00t | P414 978-0-88146-221-0 MAY 2019 | HISTORY/NATURAL HISTORY 6 x 9 | 544 pp. | Hardback, $40.00t | 978-0-88146-693-5 | H969 | Bibliography | Index | Illustrations New in Paperback69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 3 Carol Ruckdeschel first visited A Natural History Cumberland Island in the late 1960s as a research assistant at Georgia State of Cumberland University, taking up residence in the Island, Georgia early 1970s. Sea turtles were her first focus, due to their all too obvious Carol Ruckdeschel mortality, but her main interest was and is in the terrestrial ecology of the island. Ruckdeschel organized the stranding network (reporting dead or injured sea turtles), which was later taken over by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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