An edition of Byrd's line (2002)

Byrd's line

a natural history

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An edition of Byrd's line (2002)

Byrd's line

a natural history

"In 1728, William Byrd, the wealthy, English-educated master of Westover plantation, undertook a journey with a troop of commissioners, surveyors, and woodsmen to determine the exact boundary between North Carolina and Virginia. Byrd was not only an indefatigable explorer but also an amateur naturalist and diarist of considerable skill.".

"Byrd's Line is Ausband's dialogue with Byrd across the years. It still requires a hike or a four-wheel-drive vehicle to reach the remote beach where Byrd began his survey. As Ausband slogs through the Great Dismal Swamp and the thickets and forests that Byrd wrote about, he interlaces his own experiences with quotations from Byrd. These range from descriptions of chestnut trees and passenger pigeons, both gone now, to accounts of the local inhabitants, both native and European.".

"Byrd often mused about what would happen to the land in the future. While some of the dividing line still feels like wilderness, it is crisscrossed today by bridges and roads, its forests felled and paved over for parking lots and subdivisions, its waters diverted or drained. Ausband's story, therefore, is a natural history of a changed region."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
187

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Byrd's line: a natural history
2002, University of Virginia Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-182).

Published in
Charlottesville
Genre
Surveys.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
508.755
Library of Congress
F229 .A88 2002, F229.A88 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 187 p. :
Number of pages
187

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3552559M
Internet Archive
byrdslinenatural0000ausb
ISBN 10
0813921341, 081392135X
LCCN
2002003117
OCLC/WorldCat
49320313
Library Thing
963858
Goodreads
1031557

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