The Beautiful Dismal Woods
The Beautiful Dismal Woods

Author: Ryan Schmit

Publisher: Lucid Books

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780981980768

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Experience the joys and challenges of the Adirondack region through this short story collection. The Beautiful Dismal Woods is a modern campfire classic filled with challenging terrain, unpredictable weather, and tales of human nature. A great book for relaxation during a solitary hike or to share with friends as you hang around the campfire! You'll enjoy Schmit's suspense, humor, and occasional ghost story surprises. Compact enough to throw in your daypack as you hit the trails, these stories filled with modern twists will appeal to a wide audience of men and women, teens and adults. Their whimsy and variety will make this a classic to keep in your camper for years to come. Schmit transports us to the quirky and beautiful Adirondack Mountain region, but at the same time he allows room for his stories to translate to any outdoors adventure area. Not hiking the mountains right now? This book will make you want to strap on a pack and go!

The Great Dismal
The Great Dismal

Author:

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780807847527

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Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have trie

Dismal Freedom
Dismal Freedom

Author: J. Brent Morris

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1469668262

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The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers—established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.

Hallowed Be This House
Hallowed Be This House

Author: Thomas Howard

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1681492202

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Thomas Howard shows us that every room of your house-the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom, and even the bathroom-is a holy place where God's grace awaits you, if only you know how to recognize His presence there. With a rich awareness of God's all-encompassing love, Howard takes you on a spiritual tour through your own home and shows you how everything in it can lead you closer to God. In each room, Howard shows you the surprising ways you can meet God there. With wonderful insights, he reveals how, even in your daily activities you can meet the same God who came to Israel in the terror, smoke and fire in the Tabernacle, and the God who died for us on Cross. But they're by no means confined to a lofty spiritual plane: Howard sees chances to love and serve God, and sees His gentle hand, in the most seemingly dull and ordinary of places and actions. So take up this book to find out how cooking and cleaning, having family dinners together, and all the other commonplace actions that make up the fabric of your daily life can actually disclose God's presence to you. Your daily life as well as your devotional life will be forever transformed by this unusual look at how lovingly God awaits us even in the smallest things.

The Broad Highway
The Broad Highway

Author: Jeffery Farnol

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13:

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Peter Vibart, a young Oxford scholar, chooses to start adventuring on life's broad highway rather than marry a well-known beauty.