Our Southern Highlanders: A History and Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers, Pape

Reducere. Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of th...

Reducere. DescriptionTravel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the ...

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the heyday of the Cherokee Nation and on through the twentieth century, the Great Smoky Mountains have nurtured some of the most ce...

Reducere. Originally published in 1974, Mountain Spirits "traces the history of whiskey making from its origins in Ulster, Ireland, through its arrival in th...

Reducere. Originally published in 1974, Mountain Spirits "traces the history of whiskey making from its origins in Ulster, Ireland, through its arrival in th...

Reducere. Samuel A'Court Ashe was a Confederate infantry captain in the War Between the States and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislato...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Devan BrittenumAuthor: York Martin IIIAuthor: Deborah Faye MartinWatch Your Daughters The Pimps are on the prowl. In 2016, ...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1985, More Mountain Spirits" is a companion volume to Joseph Dabney's American classic "Mountain Spirits." More ...

Reducere. Genealogical And Family History Of Southern New York And The Hudson River Valley; A Record Of The Achievements Of Her People In The Making Of A Com...

Reducere. A stingy man "won't drink branch water till there's a flood, " and it is "a mighty triflin' sort o' man'd let either his dog or his woman starve." ...

Reducere. Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of...

A highly rated, vivid and readable account of U.S. tanks in action in 1944 based on six years of research, interviews and battlefield visits."[An] ...

For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English.P...

This guidebook has 30 routes for mountain walkers of all abilities in Southern Catalunya. The routes are in 3 national parks between Barcelona and ...

Reducere. Narrative Of A Captivity Among The Mohawk Indians, And A Description Of New Netherland In 1642-3 has been considered by academicians and scholars o...

Reducere. The conflicts of the Civil War continued long after the conclusion of the war: jockeys and Thoroughbreds took up the fight on the racetrack. A bord...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. Colorado's central and southern mountains still draw droves of skiers to the slopes. However, many of the historic runs and areas that were popular...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Kenneth (Brunel University London, UK) MorganNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dim...

Reducere. Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales: A Collection of Memories & Commentaries from the Mountains of Appalachi...

Reducere. THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1, 700) in...

Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. This memoir i...

Reducere. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examin...

Sir Richard Francis Burton was perhaps the most colorful British explorer of the 19th century. In 1860 he left England and his fiance to explore th...

Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...

Reducere. This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities vi...

One of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2015From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop...

Reducere. Lillian Smith Book AwardsNorthern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the mo...

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph DabneyWinner of the James Beard Cookbook of the Year award, Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine combines ...

Reducere. The ordeals of two famous African Americans This special Leonaur edition combines the account of Harriet Ann Jacobs with that of Frederick Douglass...

By: Joseph A. Grooves and Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1901, revised 1976, and reprinted 2015, 668 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-013-6.There were ...

An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

Reducere. Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had wal...

DescriptionThe Mountains of California is John Muir's tribute to the beauties of the Sierra, in the book form. When he came to California and final...

New B-format paperback edition - A monumental new life of Ancient Rome's most illustrious complex and legendary leader - Julius Caesar.

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Nick HigginsNumber of pages: 384Collection: The MacKenzie and Khan seriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x ...

Reducere. On February 11, 1780, a British army led by General Sir Henry Clinton came ashore on Johns Island, South Carolina. By the end of March, the British...

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. Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche a...

Description"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the s...

Reducere. Both parts of Uriah Smith's astounding commentary of the Book of Daniel, and its prophetic relation to the birth and life of Jesus Christ, are unit...

Reducere. By: Mrs. Sherman Williams and Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1989, reprinted 2015, 740 pages, Index to both volumes, ISBN #0-89308-599-5.This long...

DescriptionNorman Douglas, one of the 20th century's great travellers in Italy, was for most of his life inextricably, passionately, connected to t...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): H. D. KirkpatrickIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Black & White IllustrationsNumber of pages: 384...