This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state.
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in 1838. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold and other planters near Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen of their children, but his principal interest was natural history. Letters from Alabama is a personalized record of Gosse's perceptive observations during his...
This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encount...
William March's debut novel, "Company K," introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Graham Greene wrote: "It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes." After "Company K," March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short storieshis "Pearl County" seriesinspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. The University of Alabama Press is pleased to be bringing these three novels back into...
William March's debut novel, "Company K," introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Grah...
William March's debut novel, Company K, introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Graham Greene wrote: "It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes." After Company K, March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short storieshis "Pearl County" seriesinspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. The University of Alabama Press is pleased to be bringing these three novels back...
William March's debut novel, Company K, introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic,...
William March's debut novel, "Company K," introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Graham Greene wrote: It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes. After"Company K," March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short stories his Pearl County series inspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. "Come in at the Door" is the first in March s Pearl County collection, and it tells the...
William March's debut novel, "Company K," introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Grah...
