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The National Archery Association instruction manual
Bolnick, Helen; Bryant, Richard; Horn, Margaret; Phillips, Robert; Rabska, Don; Williford, Henry; Wilson, Lura; Campbell, Donald W.; Townsend, Donald; National Archery Association of the United States
- Softcover
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
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Fourth Edition. Good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains well-preserved overall. 1 Kg.
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Published by Cherokee Pub. Co., Atlanta, Ga., 1976, 1976
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xvi, 336, viii p., 1 l. front., plates, ports., fold. map. 23 cm. ; "Facsimile edition of the original edition [published in 1942], together with a new foreword." "Originally published New York, 1942"--Title page verso ; OCLC 144274 ; ISBN 08779701419 ; LCCN 42013924…LC F291 .S8 Dewey 917.58 ; brown and red cloth in price-clipped red and beige dustjacket ; book label of Oxford Books, Atlanta on front endpaper ; Contents: Chapter I: Bit of Georgia history as told at a luncheon meeting in Atlanta; a memorial that never materialized -- Chapter II: A tour through the familiar red hills of unfinished Georgia and a detour into the Deep South ; the Georgia vernacular as impulsively and charmingly spoken at a soda inn -- Chapter III: REA in the old homestead ; fond recollections of Georgia cooking, its quality and quantity ; a country gentleman foresees the repopulation of a rural state -- Chapter IV: The festive air of coastal Georgia ; Europe in Georgia ; Savannah is the product of a colonial engineer, and not of real-estate speculation and industrialism -- Chapter V: Savannah duels and duelists ; a duel to lift Coventry, the last fatal duel, and a court of honor to end duels ; Joe Johnston the conciliator -- Chapter VI: Wormsloe Gardens, estate of the noble Jones dynasty, in which, in two hundred years, there have been no shirt-sleeves ; its valuable records -- Chapter VII: Driftwood, the Garnett Plantation, its marshes and rivers ; David Washington's chronicles: dat summons Preacher Strickland; treasure-seekers and the pot of gold; tell Emma -- Chapter VIII: Old slaves on exhibition ; a once thriving seaport that disappeared ; the King Plantation and its mistress -- Chapter IX: Fanny Kemble, her diary and her life on Butler's Island, her repentance ; the tragic story of her romance with Pierce Butler -- Chapter X: Modern island splendor contrasted with the luxury of the old plantations ; the Holy City as described by Frank L. Stanton, the poet -- Chapter XI: The Okefenokee Swamp, its Chaucerian and Spakespearean aborigines, and its trembling earth ; the considerate black bear ; the zoomer, a bird that flies backwards. Chapter XII: Plenty and a Georgia products dinner ; Gene Talmadge shells the woods ; Georgia's procession of governors old and new -- Chapter XIII: The old red hills of Georgia and the Georgia peach ; cotton is still king although robbed of some of its dictatorship ; a sharecropper's testament ; the textile industry -- Chapter XIV: Warm Springs, a nationally famous resort and its cheerful polios ; a couple finds romance ; mysterious hot and cold springs ; Pine Mountain resettlement project -- Chapter XV: Sherman's post-war tribute to Atlanta ; How he and Joe Johnston fought it out ; what he did to Atlanta ; Coventry without the dive bombers ; nights and days of terror -- Chapter XVI: More about Sherman's blitzkrieg, with accent on his march through Georgia ; how he raided the smokehouses and cribs ; Wheeler's cavalry and the destructive "bummers" -- Chapter XVII: Atlanta, its rapid growth and its real-estate booms, and Jack Smith, who never wore a necktie ; "Dutch" and the Florida land bubble ; Charlie Tittle's reward -- Chapter XVIII: Atlanta capitalizes on its wartime reputation as a key city ; its high ranking in industry and letters, its two noted authors and their novels and dramas -- Chapter XIX: Liquor stores and a bartender's views on the drink evil ; where Atlanta is beautiful ; Bobby Jones, his trials as a civic asset ; colonial houses ; Dawson County, Candlewick spreads -- Chapter XX: Story of Dahlonega and its gold mines ; stars fell on Georgia too ; the Dahlonega Nugget, its crusades, and its militant editor ; hillbilly on the radio -- Chapter XXI: Doctor performs a miracle in a mountain cabin ; Auraria, another vanished Georgia town ; matter-of-fact operation of a hydraulic gold mine -- Chapter XXII: The doctor describes a kitchen-table operation by lamplight ; a two-seed-in-the-sperit hardsh ;FINE/FINE. Book.
