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Things New and Strange

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Things New and Strange

By G. Wayne Clough

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About the book

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 as Clough discovered that the collections had many m...Show more

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9780820355238

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Things New and Strange

Format

Hardcover

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