Title: Poquosin
First published: 1995
Description: "In this unique work, 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 English settlers. Interweaving social, political, economic, and military history with the story of the landscape, Kirby shows how Native American, African, and European peoples have adapted to and modified this tidewater area in the nearly four hundred years since the arrival of Europeans."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Drainage, Effect of human beings on, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Drainage, Environmental aspects of Reclamation of land, History, Nature, Reclamation of land, Wetland ecology, Drenaje, Aspectos ambientales, Recuperación de tierras, Historia, Ecología de tierras húmedas, Influence on nature, Man, Nature, effect of human beings on, Wetlands, Manuscripts, Sources, American Manuscripts, Biographies, Généraux, Histoire, États-Unis. Army, États-Unis
Places: Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
LC classification: GF504.D57 K57 1995