Deep South, Hardcover

The South has long since cast its spell on our collective imagination. Writers and artists, from Goethe and Poe, to Gauguin, Lawrence and Kerouac, ...

Reducere. How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining t...

Reducere. The sweeping story of an ambitious and once-powerful southern family From Reconstruction through the end of World War II, the Bankheads served as t...

DescriptionLegendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back r...

Reducere. From The Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, from the bayou to the Appalachians, American filmmakers have been fascinated by the South since the inv...

Reducere. An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must und...

A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th centuryMy Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical si...

A 50th anniversary edition of the classic novel set in the Deep South of the 1930s. Lee's only novel, it won the Pulitzer Prize on its original pub...

DescriptionFollow a young adventurer as she treks through the jungle, dives deep down into the sea, and climbs high up into the trees. Into the Blu...

Reducere. Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present day by focusing on ...

Reducere. A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is more than just a cookbook: it's a love letter to the women and food of the Deep South. With charming narratives, vis...

Reducere. Prairie Fire is the story of Sergeant Steve McShane and his six-man reconnaissance team. Their mission is to penetrate deep into the jungles of Lao...

Reducere. This new collection of eighty strange and unusual South Carolina legends is rooted in the state's deep history. Some originated centuries ago, such...

According to tailgating enthusiast Taylor Mathis, You'll understand why a game day in the South is unlike any other when you read this cookbook. Ma...

Reducere. Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsesse...

Reducere. In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered...

Reducere. As one of the oldest settlements in North America, Beaufort, South Carolina, can trace its roots deep into the rich history of the New World. This ...

Reducere. In this intense insider's study of murder in South Carolina, Lt. Rita Y. Shuler leads us through the dark twists and turns of twelve homicide cases...

Reducere. If only Maddy sees the mermaid, can it be real?It's Maddy's turn to have a bayou summer. At first she misses life back home in the city, but soon s...

Shells on a Chifferobe is based on the true story of a young woman named Helen; a single parent, rearing two children in the deep south at the end ...

Reducere. Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers and the stra...

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America. Slave tr...

Reducere. Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment ...

Reducere. Jonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled ...

Reducere. In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the ...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During...

Reducere. The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illus...

The 1878 City Directory of Montgomery, Alabama, included "A Brief History of Montgomery, " consisting of a "narrative" and a series of events arran...

Reducere. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and ...

Reducere. The author of The Fifolet and Louisiana, the Jewel of the Deep South, Johnette Downing stays true to her Louisiana roots in her newest book, featur...

Reducere. SEEKING A BETTER LIFE, Michael Haley fled Ireland, but in America he found only hard work, hardship, Civil War, and epidemics. His children's futur...

Reducere. The Owens Valley is a bold and beautiful land where rugged alpine peaks tower over the deep trough of high desert that John Muir called "a country ...

Reducere. It takes a particular blend of curiosity and courage to dive into a culture foreign to your own. In Across Japan, photographer Eren Sarigul takes u...

Reducere. Richeleaux, the raccoon, wants nothing more than to play his fiddle for a real audience, so he decides to have a jamboree. Andwhat's a party withou...

Reducere. When the geese begin to fly south, the leaves flutter down from the trees and the cold winds begin to blow from the north, the animals of the woods...

DescriptionEudora Welty's Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer's photographs...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat are the odds of......a high school athlete playing his first organized football game in 11th grade and walking-on to a Southeastern...

Reducere. DescriptionA Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf is a classic travelogue by John Muir, charting his journeys through Kentucky, Tennessee, the Deep South...

THE US MAY SEEM SAFE FROM WITHIN BUT BEYOND ITS BORDERS, A NEW ENEMY RISES An American ship has vanished. The president has tasked the new cyber-in...

Reducere. In the shadows of the quiet mountain towns of Western Maryland, strange creatures are said to lurk in the woods while phantoms wander the foothills...

Reducere. How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitm...

Reducere. USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR and AGATHA AWARD-WINNING SERIES "Boyer delivers a beach read filled with quirky, endearing characters and a masterfull...

Reducere. New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based ...

A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved American classic, voted the #1 Great American Read 2018.`Shoot all the bluej...

Reducere. Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vesti...

Reducere. DescriptionOn January 30, 1892, on a field adjacent a small university's quadrangle, just behind its New College, a mascot--the university goat--wa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harper LeeAuthor: Fred FordhamA beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved, Pulitzer prize-winnin...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott MaceachernFor the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations f...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speciesWhen we talk about human history, w...

Reducere. DescriptionFive hundred years ago the world shattered, banishing the gods from the Sister Continents and stealing the memories of the mortal people...

Reducere. Georgia, 1842. In this grand and passionate era of American history, forged by the dreams of extraordinary men and women, the McKay, Browning, and ...

Reducere. USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR and AGATHA AWARD-WINNING SERIES "The authentically Southern Boyer writes with heart, insight, and a deep understanding...

DescriptionThis 366-day journal, filled with inspiring quotes, tips, and prompts, will help you achieve deeper clarity, serenity, and introspection...

Recovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first...

DescriptionFrom the author of The Beast of Boggy Creek comes the ultimate investigation into a true Southern mystery... Countless reports from cred...

Reducere. DescriptionLincoln's war, the North's attack on the South, took the life of 622, 000 citizens and altered the government's structure. Marx and Enge...

Reducere. Get ready to relax, laugh and shed a tear with downhome tales from a modern storyteller with old fashioned values. Award winning columnist Leslie A...

Reducere. Carrie Lacey's happy upbringing is seemingly immune from the pressures of growing up Black in rural South Carolina during the Great Depression. But...

The world has fallen out of energetic balance. In the Deep South there is a remedy that is both powerful and dangerous--witches.At the peak of summ...

Reducere. Awash in partisan rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a ra...

Reducere. For years Southern minister Francis X. Walter was silent about the injustices of Jim Crow, blinded by the status quo, until the violent killing of ...

Reducere. Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland's work examines the story of America--and...

First in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on the hunt for R...

Dashing Ape has an eye for design, a knack with scissors, and a desire to transform the coiffure of everyone in the jungle. Thus, he opens Ape with...

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.By combin...

Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often ...

Reducere. The Webb School of Bell Buckle is the oldest continuously operating boarding school in the South. In Culleoka, Tennessee, in 1870, William Robert "...

Reducere. From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of -fighting, Amer...

These essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University's involvement in slavery and recent efforts to conf...

In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something...