Poquosin : a study of rural landscape & society

Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirby, Jack Temple
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2014
Series:Studies in rural culture
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