This book is for those who are nostalgic for the days when film noir, radio drama, and illustrated short story magazines flourished.It is a book for those who are interested in the drawing techniques of a simpler time. MILLER POPE, born in South Carolina, embarked on a lifelong career as an illustrator in the Marine Corps during World War II on the staff of the legendary Leatherneck magazine. During his stint on the magazine staff he took a course in advertising through the Marine Corps Institute. He also studied at the Corcoran School of Art and later, the Art Students League in New York...

Returning to his artistic pursuits, Pope blends his love of history with his love of illustration and writing to create lavish scenes from long ago as he chronicles and evokes an exciting time that once was.

From pirates at the dawn of civilization right down to the present day, this book tracks the infamous rogues of the seas.

Follow the struggles and victories that shaped Brunswick County from the first contact of Europeans with native Americans, to the successive administration of the Lord's Proprietors, royal governors, British crown, leaders of a new nation-many of whom hailed from this small but influential corner of North Carolina. Discover Brunsiwck's rich Civil War history, scenic roadways and waterways, and current day towns and townships. In Tales of the Silver Coast, Miller Pope recounts the tales of pirates, privateers and plantation owners, politicians and prohibition rum-runners-the many colorful...

Follow the fascinating story of pirate ships from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, through the Middle Ages, and through piracy's golden age right up to the modern age. All the ships including ships of famous pirates, Oriental pirates, and Corsairs are illustrated in full color by the author.

Eric Wilson, while working on a post grad thesis in an old beach house on Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina is abruptly drawn into an international competition It's a game, but it is not a game in the ordinary sense; there is no structure, no rules, just high stakes. The prize is money-lots of it. Among the he players are greedy monsters who think nothing of murdering anyone who stands in the way of victory. Eric knows nothing about the game, but he soon finds that his life is in mortal peril until Helen Troy, a stunningly beautiful private detective, saves him from sure torture and death. The...

This book is about an eight-mile barrier island on the Atlantic coast. It faces due south, on the same latitude as Los Angeles, California and Damascus, Syria. The island enjoys a mild climate and its oceanfront consists entirely of sandy beach. It wasn't an island until 1934 when it was severed from the mainland by the construction of a section of the Intracoastal Waterway. On March 1, 1524, Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine in the employ of the King of France, made his first landfall at nearby Cape Fear. He stayed anchored off shore in the area that included the island for three days...