Encyclopedia of North Carolina, Hardcover - William S. Powell

The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina ...

A leading authority on the people and events that have shaped North Carolina over four centuries, Powell here provides a sharply drawn overall hist...

Reducere. The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in t...

Reducere. Hugh Morton has had a long and active public life as an environmentalist, developer, and promoter of tourism. His favorite role, however, is that o...

Reducere. This classic botanical handbook, originally compiled by the late William S. Justice and C. Ritchie Bell, pairs hundreds of color photographs with d...

Reducere. DescriptionNative North Carolinians tend to learn the state toast (adopted by the General Assembly in 1957) in childhood. As with the state motto, ...

Reducere. From its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination, North Carolina has an amazingly colorful history. Author an...

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and s...

Reducere. The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

Reducere. Presents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the sun slips behind the trees and shadows lengthen near dusk, the mountains and valleys of Highlands and Cashiers whisper with o o...

Reducere. Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-w...

Reducere. Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many bo...

Reducere. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Ch...

Reducere. Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...

Reducere. Early in life, North Carolinian Debbie Moose encountered fish primarily in stick form, but once she experienced her first raw oyster and first frie...

Reducere. DescriptionThe office of notary public has a long and proud history in our society. Their work is rarely glamorous, but it is so important that the...

Reducere. It's bedtime in the Tar Heel StateSay goodnight to all your favorite locations, including: - Bank of America Stadium- Carowinds - North Carolina Mu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's wes...

Hugh Morton was seldom seen in his adult life without a camera around his neck. Much to the benefit of his beloved home state, he crisscrossed Nort...

Reducere. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, Wyatt Williams offers a powerful look at why we kill and eat animals. In order to understand why we ea...

Reducere. Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illust...

Reducere. More than 10 million people call the southeastern state of North Carolina home.A True Book: My United States series allows readers to experience wh...

Reducere. Classic North Carolina stoneware pots--with their rich textures, monochromatic glazes, and minimal decoration--belong to one of America's most reve...

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

Reducere. DescriptionThis powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passi...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

Reducere. Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Li...

DescriptionJean Anderson's new cookbook deliciously brings together two of her lifelong passions--great food and North Carolina pottery. Fans of bo...

Reducere. The connections between one of the most admired South Carolinians and the lush green valleys of Cashiers North Carolina and Hot Springs North Carol...

Kapelle's study of the north of England in the years before, during, and after the Norman Conquest is a fascinating account of a pivotal, but littl...

Reducere. Drawing: Landscapes with William F. Powell: Learn to draw outdoor scenes step by step With Drawing: Landscapes, learn to render a variety of beauti...