A lifetime friend of Southern novelist Eugenia Price, Mary Bray Wheeler offers a unique guidebook to the historical places and people that give Price's novels their special Southern flavor. Travelers, sightseers, and history buffs--whether in cars or their reading chairs--will discover anew Price's treasured coastal Southeast. Maps and photographs.
Do you want to experience the charm of Georgia's St. Simons Island? Do you long to see the little chapel at Frederica? Would you like to stand amid the ruins of Dungeness on Cumberland Island? Now you can. Come explore the historical places and beautiful settings of Eugenia Price's beloved novels in Eugenia Price's South, a well-researched and fascinating companion to the author's Southeast coastal classics.Mary Bray Wheeler has combined extensive journeys through the South with in-depth knowledge of Price's literary world to spotlight the people and places that populate Price's novels. Illustrated with photographs and meticulously detailed maps, this travel companion guides readers to the actual locations that come alive in Price's St. Simon Trilogy, Savannah Quartet, Florida Trilogy, and Georgia Trilogy. Whether you are an avid traveler or an armchair enthusiast, you will find this delightful volume the perfect guide for your pilgrimage to the sites of Eugenia Price's South.
A lifetime friend of Southern novelist Eugenia Price, Mary Bray Wheeler offers a unique guidebook to the historical places and people that give Price's novels their special Southern flavor. Travelers, sightseers, and history buffs-whether in cars or their reading chairs--will discover anew Price's treasured coastal Southeast. Maps and photographs.