Things New and Strange: A Southerner's Journey Through the Smithsonian Collections

by G. Wayne Clough

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Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the South. Soon after retiring from the Smithsonian, Clough decided to see what the Smithsonian collections could tell him about South Georgia, where he had spent most of his childhood in the 1940s and 1950s. The investigations that followed, which began as something of a quixotic scavenger hunt, expanded...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0820355232

ISBN13:9780820355238

Release Date:May 2019

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:3.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.3" x 9.2"

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