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

by G. Wayne Clough

Book Overview

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"