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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808274603321

Autore

Naylor Carl

Titolo

The day the johnboat went up the mountain : stories from my twenty years in South Carolina maritime archaeology / / Carl Naylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-69155-7

9786613668493

1-61117-134-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

917.57/04

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - South Carolina

Historic sites - South Carolina

Shipwrecks - South Carolina - History

Underwater archaeology - South Carolina

Coastal archaeology - South Carolina

Archaeologists - South Carolina

South Carolina Antiquities

South Carolina History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Twenty years and counting -- The Lewisfield--no, Two Cannon--no, Little Landing Wreck Site -- Mud sucks -- The day the johnboat went up the mountain -- Hobcaw Shipyard -- Dredging for the first Americans -- The upside-down wreck -- Salvage license #32 -- The wreck of the SS William Lawrence -- Hobby divers -- Joe and the alligator -- Brown's Ferry Vessel arrives in Georgetown -- Those darn dugouts -- The Hunley, the Housatonic, and the Indian chief -- The mysterious French Cargo Site -- The Cooper River Anchor Farm -- Mowing the lawn -- Man overboard--not! -- "Never sausage an artifact" -- Sexy wrecks.