Geographic Orientation/North Carolina
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Plott Hound Tales: Legendary People & Places Behind the Breed
$31.99 Add to cartThe Plott hound has reached worldwide fame through the contributions of many colorful characters from the Southern Appalachians. Quill Rose–a legendary local outlaw, moonshiner, gunfighter and more–… [more below]
- Author: Plott, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1540225593
- Language: English
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Lessons from the Sand: Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach
$24.00 Add to cartEver wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hands-on activities for families with children, Lessons f… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Pilkey, Charles O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 146962737X
- Language: English
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Outer Banks Reader
$32.00 Add to cartFor half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. Two of his earliest, Graveyard of the Atlantic … [more below]
- Author: Stick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847267
- Language: English
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Carolina: Photographs from the First State University
$42.50 Add to cartLike a leisurely stroll along the oak-shaded paths of campus, this vibrant collection of photographs captures the heart and soul of the community that is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil… [more below]
- Author: Eisdorfer, Erica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0807830356
- Language: English
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened — and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.
In the fall of 1943, at- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0316244627
- Language: English
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Mama Dip’s Family Cookbook
$22.00 Add to cartIn this much-anticipated follow-up to her bestselling Mama Dip’s Kitchen, Mildred “Mama Dip” Council serves up an abundance of new recipes for home-style Southern cooking that is sure to please. From … [more below]
- Author: Council, Mildred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 080785655X
- Language: English
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The Best Hikes of Pisgah National Forest
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Linville Gorge to the Davidson River Valley, the land comprising Pisgah National Forest has been a source of pleasure to hikers for generations. This guide details almost 100 of the forest’s fine
- Author: Goldsmith, C. Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0895871904
- Language: English
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Outer Banks Cookbook: Recipes & Traditions from North Carolina’s Barrier Islands
$26.95 Add to cartMore than seven million people visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina every year, and they all fall in love with its coastal Southern cuisine. The Outer Banks Cookbook is a true celebration of the ma
- Author: Wiegand, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0762781416
- Language: English
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A History of Lake Norman: Fish Camps to Ferraris
$31.99 Add to cartOn a muggy September day in 1959, North Carolina governor Luther Hodges set off the first charge of dynamite for the Cowan’s Ford Dam project. The dam channeled Catawba River waters into the largest l… [more below]
- Author: McShane, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1540210286
- Language: English
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The Story of the Plott Hound: Strike & Stay
$24.99 Add to cartThe Plott bear hound, a dog originally from Germany and developed in the North Carolina mountains, is known as one of the world’s best hunting dog breeds.
Recognized now as one of the premier hunting d
- Author: Plott, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1596292628
- Language: English
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Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater
$19.95 Read moreFrom Blackbeard’s den at Ocracoke, to the Hills of the Seven Sisters at Nags Head, to the misty swamps of Shallote, there is hardly an inch of territory along North Carolina’s coast without a legend a
- Author: Whedbee, Charles Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: January 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0910244413
- Language: English
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A Son of the Game
$21.99 Add to cartWhen acclaimed golf writer James Dodson leaves his home in Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father first taught him the game that would shape his life and career, he’s at a point
- Author: Dodson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 13, 2010
- ISBN10: 1565129784
- Language: English
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Grandfather Mountain: The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon
$30.00 Add to cartWith its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina’s Grandfather Mountain is many things to many people: an easily… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674319
- Language: English
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Voices from the Outer Banks
$12.95 Add to cartJohn F. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real History(TM) series with Voices from the Outer Banks. This volume presents the actual words of the people who lived the uncommonly rich history
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Kirk, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0895876442
- Language: English
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Wild Flowers of North Carolina, 2nd Ed.
$26.00 Add to cartThis classic botanical handbook, originally compiled by the late William S. Justice and C. Ritchie Bell, pairs hundreds of color photographs with descriptions of the wild flowers and flowering trees, … [more below]
- Author: Justice, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0807855979
- Language: English
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How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
$21.00 Add to cartTake a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline?… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Pilkey, Orrin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0807855103
- Language: English
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NC 12: Gateway to the Outer Banks
$16.00 Add to cartConnecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. Throughout i… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Dawson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1469628147
- Language: English
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The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958
$31.00 Add to cartThe Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This long series of low, narrow, sandy islands stretches along the North Carolina coast fo… [more below]
- Author: Stick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 30 1990
- ISBN10: 080784277X
- Language: English
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Ocracokers
$31.00 Add to cartNorth Carolina’s Ocracoke island has produced a remarkably cohesive community of islanders. For more than two centuries, these Ocracokers lived in relative isolation, enjoying the beauty and battling … [more below]
- Series: Languages and Literatures; 233
- Author: Ballance, Alton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: August 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842656
- Language: English
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Best Ghost Tales of North Carolina, Second Edition
$10.95 Add to cartHere are twenty-five tales about strange happenings, creepy places, and engaging specters across the Old North State. Six are new for this 2nd edition.
Stealthy and forlorn, cunning and mysterious, th
- Author: Zepke, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1561643785
- Language: English
