Sickly Vapors Harold Braswell Hammond continues the seafaring adventures

Hammond continues the seafaring adventures of the prominent Cutler family of Massachusetts

and interpersonal conflict

He relates the best of them here

his long sequence 'Plague Lands' is an elegy for the life of a lost city

Sickly Vapors Harold Braswell Hammond continues the seafaring adventuresThe southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vicious illnesses from malaria and yellow fever to dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, typhus, and smallpox beleaguered those dwelling in the South and was blamed on the particular combination of air, earth, and water characteristic of