The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke and Other Tales of the Outer Banks, Hardcover - Charles Harry Whedbee

Reducere. Every September, on the first night of the new moon, there are those who vow they see a flaming ship sail three times past the coast of Ocracoke. N...

Reducere. One August night, two young law students knocked three times on the huge door to Blackbeard's castle, spoke the secret password, and gained admissi...

Reducere. The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost--unt...

Reducere. As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the island's vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer ...

Reducere. North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes ...

Fishing on the Outer Banks for subsistence began over 1, 000 years ago with the Algonquin Indians, who made their summer camps on the islands. They...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Outer Banks has a long history of unconventional characters and curious occurrences. Did you know that escapees from an escargot far...

Reducere. On an island there is nowhere to hide. That's why these ghost stories scare and delight us so much. The Outer Banks is full of life and death tales...

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Ita...

Reducere. About the AuthorJames D. Charlet leads tours, educational programs, and speaking engagements and contributes to local and national media with artic...

On the remote north-western Isle of Lewis stands one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in the world, a stone circle forming part of a hu...

Reducere. Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the region that str...

Reducere. Anyone who has lived or vacationed on the Outer Banks has an old favorite restaurant. Hundreds have opened over many decades and then closed thanks...

Reducere. Painfully remote in the time of the Wright brothers, today the Outer Banks famously welcomes millions of visitors each year. The journey from early...

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander and Lazell's delightful study of North Carolina's Outer Banks contains a wealth of statistics and facts . . . A Ribbon of Sand...

Reducere. The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost--unt...

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into b...

Reducere. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is a novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Self-published by Crane when the author was only 22 years old, Ma...

Reducere. There is quite possibly only one place where not only can a person see wild horses on the beach, one can share a home with them. The Northern Outer...

Reducere. "The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay." (Traditions of Devonshire, Nursery Rhyme, 1883) He brooked no in...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: G. W. MullinsIllustrator: C. L. HauseIn Native American history, there are many legends about UFOs, gods and aliens. There ...

Reducere. In the mid-1800s, wealthy farmers and businessmen began bringing their families to North Carolina's Outer Banks to escape the blistering inland sum...

Reducere. In Native American history, there are many legends about UFOs, gods and aliens. There has always been a connection between Native Americans and bei...

Reducere. Seventeen BEST OF THE WEST short stories by Charlie Steel, Tale-Weaver ExtraordinaireNo matter the challenge or adversity, Charlie Steel's characte...

Reducere. DescriptionAnyone who has lived or vacationed on the Outer Banks has an old favorite restaurant. Hundreds have opened over many decades and then cl...

Recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession, the slave tra...

DescriptionThe Vikings were warlike adventurers with a strong sense of justice, and the high drama of their myths and legends, retold through the c...

John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The ...

Reducere. The seventeen stories selected for this compilation range from the fantastic to the outright bizarre, exposing the dark dreams and obsessions that ...

Reducere. Dad's stories and tales of balderdash is a descriptive collection of diverse stories that are fun and entertaining. Each story is capable of holdin...

Reducere. DescriptionStanding along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wil...

Reducere. The rich history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways. A book over twenty yea...

Reducere. The fairy tales of Charles Perrault-10 timeless stories published from 1693 to 1697-have endured in the public imagination, becoming archetypes tha...

Reducere. From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. Germ...

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Reducere. The Outer Banks National Scenic Byway received its designation in 2009, an act that stands as a testament to the historical and cultural importance...

Publisher: PS PublishingAuthor(s): Albert E. CowdreyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 220 x 42Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Reducere. DescriptionNow a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-c...

Reducere. The Perfect Turn promises us tales of skiing and skiers-but what gripping tales these are: ski history meets ski adventure. The story of great ski ...

Includes a new workbook"Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old--a full-blown catas...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

DescriptionThe Outer Banks of Currituck County are home to large mansions and see thousands of tourists each year. The islands weren't always popul...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Patrick Kelly & Will AdamsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 175 x 238 x 6Cover type: P...

"Locus Award winner Lee (Phoenix Extravagant) takes on the folktale form in a collection of 25 gorgeous, magical stories, tiny jewels of worldbuild...

Reducere. When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and...

Reducere. The Adventures of Darby O'Gill brings together the short stories originally published in Kavanagh's two books, Darby O'Gill and the Good People, an...

Reducere. The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made entirely of silver (the...

Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales ...

The stories in this collection reflect my many years of work teaching music to children. True to my approach in education, the stories are based on...