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Highlights
- Award-winning environmental writer Charles Seabrook describes the island's natural bounty and tells its long and intriguing history.
- About the Author: Charles Seabrook has been a long-time environmental writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- 382 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
Cumberland Island is the site of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's 1996 wedding, which thrust Georgia's southernmost barrier island into the national spotlight. The island is now profiled by an award-winning environmental writer in this history of what "Town & Country" describes as a paradise where "time seems to have stood still." Photos.Book Synopsis
Award-winning environmental writer Charles Seabrook describes the island's natural bounty and tells its long and intriguing history.
About the Author
Charles Seabrook has been a long-time environmental writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His popular weekly column called "Wild Georgia" was the victim of cutbacks. However, in 2008, the paper reinstituted the column due to reader demand. In 1981, Seabrook was one of the first reporters in the world to write about a mysterious and burgeoning disease that would soon be known as AIDS. In addition, he has written extensively on global warming, air and water pollution, and songbird decline. He has won awards from the National Wildlife Federation, the Southern Environmental Law Center, and various press organizations. His newspaper series about Georgia's mining industry won the Investigative Reporters and Editors "Best Story of the Year" award in 1994. In 2001, the state of Georgia gave him the R. L. "Rock" Howard Award, its highest conservation award. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.