Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape & SocietyUNC Press Books, 1995 - 293 páginas Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century |
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Natures Agency and Hungry Rivers | 1 |
THE COSMOPOLITANS | 35 |
The Mariners | 37 |
The Wizard of Shellbanks | 61 |
THE HINTERLANDERS | 93 |
WoodsBurners and HogRunners | 95 |
Swampers | 126 |
Renegades | 162 |
THE WOODSMEN | 195 |
The Entrepreneurs | 197 |
The Experts | 217 |
Natures Morbidity and Hydraulic Confoundments | 235 |
Notes | 251 |
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