University of North Carolina Press
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Tar Heel History on Foot: Great Walks through 400 Years of North Carolina’s Fascinating Past
$30.00 Add to cartThis lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state’s history, from the time of its first settlement to the present. Veteran gui… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Setzer, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1469608901
- Language: English
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Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy
$19.00 Add to cartWe will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671816
- Language: English
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North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky
$37.00 Add to cartBland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina’s sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Car… [more below]
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1469665832
- Language: English
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Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966-June 1967
$27.00 Add to cartA compelling portrait of rock’s greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix’s life…. [more below]
- Author: Obrecht, Jas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1469669390
- Language: English
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America
$22.00 Add to cartTom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Today, … [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807871222
- Language: English
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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
$26.00 Add to cartDispelling much of what he terms the ‘mythology’ of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their c… [more below]
- Author: Leyburn, James G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: August 30 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842591
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People
$27.00 Add to cartThis second, updated edition of the acclaimed A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize… [more below]
- Author: Reardon, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: May 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1469633361
- Language: English
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Birds of the Carolinas
$34.50 Add to cartThe well-loved standard reference for bird-watchers and nature lovers in North Carolina and South Carolina, Birds of the Carolinas collects information on all avian species known to have occurred in t… [more below]
- Author: Potter, Eloise F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0807856711
- Language: English
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Rice: a Savor the South cookbook
$16.00 Add to cartAmong the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables–and on tables around the world–rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice … [more below]
- Series: Savor the South Cookbooks
- Author: Twitty, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 146967761X
- Language: English
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The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region
$31.95 Add to cartIn The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South’s larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whit… [more below]
- Author: Ferris, Marcie Cohen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 146962995X
- Language: English
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Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland
$31.00 Add to cartThe only volume to deal specifically with the mid-Atlantic region, this practical guide describes in detail the 88 terrestrial mammals found there as well as the 33 marine species that inhabit the off… [more below]
- Author: Webster, Wm David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2004
- ISBN10: 0807855421
- Language: English
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Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartJust 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 adventu… [more below]
- Series: Chapel Hill Books
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847526
- Language: English
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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle
$39.95 Add to cartThe struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania’s Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked bruta… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Wert, Jeffry D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668424
- Language: English
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Good Walks: Rediscovering the Soul of Golf at Eighteen of the Carolinas’ Best Courses
$40.00 Add to cartThis book celebrates the beauty, tradition, and variety of golf across the Carolinas, featuring eighteen beloved courses as experienced by the walking golfer. One of golf’s earliest appeals was its he… [more below]
- Author: Pace, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662868
- Language: English
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Shrimp: A Savor the South Cookbook
$20.00 Add to cartRecalling boyhood shrimping expeditions with his father and summoning up the aromas and flavors of a southern shrimp boil or shrimp fry, chef Jay Pierce brings America’s favorite shellfish to center s… [more below]
- Series: Savor the South Cookbooks
- Author: Pierce, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1469621142
- Language: English
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Passalong Plants
$41.00 Add to cartPassalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cer… [more below]
- Author: Bender, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0807844187
- Language: English
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The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
$40.50 Add to cartAn NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work–Non Fiction
James Beard award-winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1469647672
- Language: English
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Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests: An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia
$25.00 Add to cartThis unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities visitors encounter along the trail. Drawing on years of… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Jeffries, Stephanie B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1469618206
- Language: English
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Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America’s Richest Forest
$39.95 Add to cartLongleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the “alpha tree” of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to d… [more below]
- Author: Finch, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0807835757
- Language: English
