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Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0807835854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: Bland Simpson
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Published: 2018-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781469642291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780807846865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces, "Into the Sound Country" offers an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain and its richly varied natural world, as seen by two natives of the region. 61 illustrations. 3 maps.
Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-26
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781469665832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state's Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling and travelogue to create a portrait of the Old North State with care and humor. Three of the state's finest photographers come along to guide the journey: Simpson's wife and creative partner Ann Cary Simpson, professional photographer Scott Taylor, and writer and naturalist Tom Earnhardt. Their photos, combined with Simpson's rich narrative, will inspire readers to consider not only what North Carolina has been and what it is but also what we hope it will be. This book belongs on the shelf of longtime residents, newcomers, and visitors alike.
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-07-14
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1439164010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLast Light Over Carolina Every woman in the sultry South Carolina low country knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling. Over the course of one terrifying, illuminating day, Carolina looks back across thirty years of love and loss, joy and sorrow: How she rejected a well-to-do upbringing to marry Bud and embrace his extraordinary lifestyle by the sea . . . how hard times and loneliness have driven them apart . . . and how, with one mistake, she may have shattered their once-unbreakable bond forever. While their the close-knit community rallies together to search for one of its own, Carolina knows their love must somehow call him home, across miles of rough water and unspeakable memories. New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe explores a vanishing feature of the southern coastline, the mysterious yet time-honored shrimping culture, in a compelling tale of a strong woman struggling to prove that love is a light that never dies.
Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780807856178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-04-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780865477391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.
Author: Jen Calonita
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1338161164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of the Fairy Tale Reform School and the Belles series comes a contemporary YA that sings with hilarity and fun. The Nightingales are in a serious funk. Bradley Academy's all-girl a cappella group used to be the pride of the sunshine state, but the Nightingales have recently fallen out of harmony. Best friends and co-captains Lidia Sato and Sydney Marino haven't been speaking ever since a boy came between them. And not just any boy-none other than Griffin Mancini, the lead singer of Bradley Academy's smug all-boy a capella group, the Kingfishers. The Nightingales have no chance of making it to the big state final if their captains are at each other's throats. Their only hope is new girl Julianna Ramirez. But in addition to her serious pipes, she has some serious stage fright. The Nightingales will have to come together if they want to shine at the upcoming competition and restore the group to its former glory.Turn It Up! follows Lidia, Sydney, and Julianna through the ups and downs of friendship, romance, competition, and finding the perfect song!
Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007-09-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0807876747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it not for the buffering Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows of the Atlantic. Instead they are home to unique plant and animal species and well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an earlier human history.
Author: Sean M. Kelley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1469627698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, detailing everything from the identities of the captain and crew to their wild encounters with inclement weather, slave traders, and near-mutiny. But most importantly, Kelley tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to their sale in South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, Kelley provides rare insight into the communal lives of slaves and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African American culture. In this immersive exploration, Kelley connects the story of enslaved people in the United States to their origins in Africa as never before. Told uniquely from the perspective of one particular voyage, this book brings a slave ship's journey to life, giving us one of the clearest views of the eighteenth-century slave trade.
