Legends of Old Wilmington & Cape Fear, Hardcover - John Hirchak

Reducere. Situated on the banks of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington is awash in unusual tales and legends. A prevalent pirate hideaway, the area harbored the ...

Reducere. Situated on the banks of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington is awash in unusual tales and legends. A prevalent pirate hideaway, the area harbored the ...

Rising from the banks of the Cape Fear River like a spectral stage, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains one of America s most haunted cities. Its b...

Reducere. Rising from the banks of the Cape Fear River like a spectral stage, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains one of America s most haunted cities. Its b...

Reducere. Cape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived. Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit ...

'The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller' - Stephen King

Reducere. For a century after its incorporation in 1740, Wilmington, North Carolina remained a sleepy port city. Then, the coming of steam-power, especially ...

Reducere. James Sprunt served on a blockade runner during the Civil War, and later became one of the wealthiest residents of Wilmington, N.C. Noted for his p...

Reducere. DescriptionIn August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city's lawyers, businessmen, and ot...

Reducere. DescriptionLiving in the shadow of the mighty Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, miles from the village, Ellie, Luke and Blake exist in a world of spirits, ...

Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water andclimaxes on a raging river. The director's love of fear cinema, his Catholicism an...

Reducere. The Old and New Legends of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina -Tales of the South Strand is a written account of not only the old legends of the Murrel...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1993 and 1994, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources' Underwater Archaeology Unit teamed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to...

Reducere. This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching Am...

Reducere. Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont ...

Reducere. The roots of American music are deeply grounded in North Carolina s music history. North Carolina musicians pioneered and mastered the genres of ol...

Reducere. What was life like on old Cape Cod?Lunch counters. Working the telephone switchboard. A song called Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs Murphy's Chowder....

The first notes of jazz hit Cape Cod in the very early days of the genre. Bournehurst-on-the-Canal hosted top bands, and emerging swing era dancers...

Reducere. Cape May is America s first seaside resort, and with that comes a mouthwatering food history. The New York Times even proclaimed the city Restauran...

Reducere. Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Sá. Published while Zitkála-Sá was just beginni...

Trade paperback. A new collection of poetry from the Scottish poet and prose writer. Burnside's }Black Cat Bone{ won both the Forward Prize and the...

Beginning in the seventeenth century, townsfolk and rural dwellers in the remote Spanish colonial city of Santa Fe maintained a provocative interes...

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. He's driving round with his father's ashe...

Reducere. While South Carolina has the most famous Charles Towne in Carolina, the first one was along the banks of the Cape Fear River. Between 1664-1667, Ba...

Reducere. That Old Black Magic is a history of the best known black stage magicians performing in the United States since the colonial days, featuring fascin...

Reducere. DescriptionOf the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 mil...

Reducere. Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, sugg...

The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European coun...

Reducere. The Lost Hero of Cape Cod tells the story of an extraordinary nineteenth-century mariner... and of a morale-boosting victory for the young United S...

Reducere. DescriptionFEAR is given his first assignment as a hit-man by his former cocaine plug, GUSTAVO. He is to execute his ex-business acquaintance turne...

Reducere. In 1898, the Portland Gale tore across Provincetown on Cape Cod's coast. Walter Ellis, a descendant of legendary Maria Hallett, loses his ship and ...