wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
ISBN: 9780807856178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived they found the Carroll A. Deering deserted, with no trace of the captain, Willis B. Wormell, or the crew. When, several months later, a bottle was found on a nearby beach, purportedly containing a note from a crew member who ascribed the schooner's fate to its capture by pirates, a sensational panic in international shipping ensued....
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, all ...
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125,76 zł |
Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
ISBN: 9781469642291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation.
Grandy, born a slave,... In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one...
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95,40 zł |
The Coasts of Carolina: Seaside to Sound Country
ISBN: 9780807834398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. Scott Taylor, who has been photographing the coast for almost thirty years, and Bland Simpson, whose many coastal books have delighted readers for two decades, come together to offer an inviting visual and textual portrait organized around coastal themes such as nature, fishing, and community life, with an emphasis on particular places and seasons. Evocative text is woven together with 145 vivid color images to present a unique and welcoming...
The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. S...
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162,62 zł |
The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel
ISBN: 9780807844328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search for her, and the case immediately became a national sensation. Bland Simpson, who first heard the tale as an Elizabeth City schoolboy, weaves this true story into a colorful nonfiction account, told in three first-person voices: Nell's sister Ollie; famous newspaper editor W. O. Saunders, who...
As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey...
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125,76 zł |
Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir
ISBN: 9780807847527 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this engaging memoir, Bland Simpson, who grew up near the swamp in North Carolina, blends personal experience, travel narrative, oral history, and natural history to create an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people. For this edition, he has added an epilogue discussing developments...
Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious ...
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117,09 zł |
The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle
ISBN: 9780807871256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it not for the buffering Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows of the Atlantic. Instead they are home to unique plant and animal species and well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an earlier human history.
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of ...
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125,76 zł |
What Teaching Taught Me
ISBN: 9781546938651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,15 zł |
Clover Garden: A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir
ISBN: 9781469682891 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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112,75 zł |
Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian's Eastern Streams
ISBN: 9781469624938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region's geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson tell the stories of those who have lived and worked in this country, chronicling both a distinct environment and a way of life. Whether rhapsodizing about learning to sail on the Pasquotank River or eating oysters on Ocracoke, he introduces readers to the people and communities along the watery web of myriad...
Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the regio...
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151,78 zł |
North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky
ISBN: 9781469665832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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160,45 zł |
Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian's Coastal Plain
ISBN: 9780807846865 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson.
Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's... Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It i...
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169,12 zł |