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The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina, Paperback - Philip Gerard

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Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

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Hugh Morton, North Carolina Photographer, Hardcover - Hugh Morton

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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...

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A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, Paperback - Bruce A. Sorrie

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

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Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities, Hardcover - David Blevins

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

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook, Paperback - Georgann Eubanks

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Reducere. Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life fo...

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The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery, Hardcover - Mark Hewitt

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

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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt, Paperback - Tom Earnhardt

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Reducere. In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Explori...

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The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History, Paperback - William S. Powell

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

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...

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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, Paperback - John C. Inscoe

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

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Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State, Paperback - Foy Allen Edelman

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Reducere. DescriptionCrisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitch...

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Carolina: Photographs from the First State University, Hardcover - Erica Eisdorfer

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Reducere. Like a leisurely stroll along the oak-shaded paths of campus, this vibrant collection of photographs captures the heart and soul of the community t...

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The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, Paperback - David S. Cecelski

305,99 RON 327,99 RON

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...

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Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg, Paperback - Rod Gragg

109,99 RON

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51, 000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regim...

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A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713, Paperback - Noeleen McIlvenna

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Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

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The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens, Paperback - Gene R. Nichol

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. More than 1.5 million North Carolinians today live in poverty. More than one in five are children. Behind these sobering statistics are the faces o...

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The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina, Paperback - Rob Christensen

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Reducere. How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a c...

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Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World, Hardcover - Daniel S. Pierce

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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...

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Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina, Paperback - James L. Leloudis

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Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

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Backpacking North Carolina: The Definitive Guide to 43 Can't-Miss Trips from Mountains to Sea, Paperback - Joe Miller

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Reducere. Joe Miller brings us the first-ever stand-alone guidebook to backpacking in North Carolina, a state long known as a terrific backpacking destinatio...

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North Carolina Lighthouses: The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach, Paperback - Cheryl Shelton-Roberts

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

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Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina: A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills, Paperback - Fred C. Fussell

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else...

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The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901, Paperback - Helen G. Edmonds

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Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and munic...

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Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, Paperback - Caroline E. Janney

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox, Hardcover - Caroline E. Janney

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

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The Darkest Days of the War, Paperback - Peter Cozzens

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive--the o...

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The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies, Paperback - David La Vere

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Reducere. At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the...

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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North, Paperback - Crystal Lynn Webster

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Reducere. For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African A...

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The Deacons for Defense, Paperback - Lance Hill

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Reducere. In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and fo...

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Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton, Paperback - William Marvel

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

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...

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Book of Salsa, Paperback - Cesar Miguel Rondon

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the ...

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Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Paperback - Marcus B. Simpson

143,99 RON

In this detailed guide to the best birding localities, Simpson describes more than three hundred sites, including recreation areas, overlooks, camp...

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The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast: Barrier Islands, Coastal Waters, and Wetlands, Paperback - Dirk Frankenberg

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor some years, The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast has stood as an essential resource for all who treasure our coastal enviro...

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The Harpsichord Owner's Guide, Paperback - Edward L. Kottick

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decision...

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Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett, Hardcover - Bernard L. Herman

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century. Raised in the African American industrial city of Besse...

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John Tyler, the Accidental President, Paperback - Edward P. Crapol

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In th...

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Okra: A Savor the South Cookbook, Hardcover - Virginia Willis

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Passionate okra lovers crave this bright green, heat-loving vegetable, whether fried, grilled, steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, pickled, raw, who...

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Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone, Paperback - Nadine Cohodas

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a ...

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The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists, Hardcover - William Ferris

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

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...

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Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark, Paperback - Katherine Mellen Charron

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousa...

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Birds of the Carolinas, Paperback - Eloise F. Potter

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Reducere. The well-loved standard reference for bird-watchers and nature lovers in North Carolina and South Carolina, Birds of the Carolinas collects informa...

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Railroads of the Confederacy, Paperback - Robert C. Black

148,99 RON

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a maj...

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Great Day Hikes on North Carolina's Mountains-To-Sea Trail, Paperback - Friends of the Mountains-To-Sea Trail

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 1, 175-mile destination trail that crosses North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Pa...

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Circa 1903: North Carolina's Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight, Paperback - Larry E. Tise

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

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...

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Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877, Paperback - Ryan Hall

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and...

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Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk - David Menconi

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. Davi...

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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, Paperback - Wade Davis

344,99 RON 369,99 RON

Reducere. In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of...

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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for l...

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The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds, Paperback - John Yow

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascin...

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Light and Air: The Photography of Bayard Wootten, Paperback - Jerry W. Cotten

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, ...

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Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook, Hardcover - Michael W. Twitty

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables--and on tables around the world--rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W....

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Garden Perennials for the Coastal South, Paperback - Barbara J. Sullivan

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. Finally: a book that addresses the unique challenges of gardening in the coastal South.Master Gardener Barbara Sullivan provides an authoritative g...

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Fruit: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Nancie McDermott

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Fruit collects a dozen of the South's bountiful locally sourced fruits in a cook's basket of fifty-four luscious dishes, savory and sweet. Demand f...

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Buttermilk: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Debbie Moose

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Most southern cooks will agree with Debbie Moose when she writes, "Like a full moon on a warm southern night, buttermilk makes something special ha...

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Corn: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Tema Flanagan

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Without corn, Tema Flanagan writes, the South would cease to taste like the South. Her treasury of fifty-one recipes demonstrates deliciously just ...

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Chicken: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Cynthia Graubart

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. While fried chicken may be the South's iconic dish, when it comes to southern foodways, there are a lot of ways to love America's most popular fowl...

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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry, Paperback - Clarence Major

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his ...

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The Haitians: A Decolonial History, Paperback - Jean Casimir

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-D...

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Catfish: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Angela Knipple

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. While many fish, from bream and crappie to bass, trout, and shad, are popular in the South, none of them has settled as thoroughly in southern cult...

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Pecans: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Kathleen Purvis

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Show me a recipe with pecans, and I have to try it." Attributing her own love of this American nut to the state of her birth--Georgia is the nation...

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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955, Paperback - Sarah-Jane Mathieu

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Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Paperback - Harriet Beecher Stowe

302,99 RON

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Souther...

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Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell, Hardcover - Alison M. Parker

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Reducere. Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career...

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The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature, Paperback - Josh Doty

272,99 RON

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

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A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes, Hardcover - Mark Shapiro

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

Reducere. Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body o...

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American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science, Paperback - Megan Raby

205,99 RON

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

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Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering, Paperback - Bland Simpson

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, a...

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The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina's Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics, Hardcover - Rob Christensen

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionLouisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North ...

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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution, Hardcover - Jeff Broadwater

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most impo...

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The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal: The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore - John Yow

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most fa...

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Burying the Dead But Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, Paperback - Caroline E. Janney

236,99 RON

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these L...

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