University of North Carolina Press
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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
$26.00 Add to cartIn this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV’s Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seaml… [more below]
- Author: Earnhardt, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 146966934X
- Language: English
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The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods Through the Year
$25.00 Add to cartTelling the stories of twelve North Carolina heritage foods, each matched to the month of its peak readiness for eating, Georgann Eubanks takes readers on a flavorful journey across the state. She beg… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, Georgann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469666154
- Language: English
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The New Guide to North Carolina Beaches: All You Need to Know to Explore and Enjoy Currituck, Calabash, and Everywhere Between
$26.00 Add to cartThe New Guide to North Carolina Beaches is an invaluable resource for every coastal traveler in the Tar Heel State. This descriptive guide to North Carolina’s coastal counties goes far beyond the basi… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Morris, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1469651734
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People
$25.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his… [more below]
- Author: Reardon, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1469630206
- Language: English
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Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians
$31.00 Add to cartThe Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things–from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from bra… [more below]
- Author: Frick-Ruppert, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0807871168
- Language: English
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The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery
$50.00 Add to cartClassic North Carolina stoneware pots–with their rich textures, monochromatic glazes, and minimal decoration–belong to one of America’s most revered stoneware pottery traditions. In a lavishly illus… [more below]
- Author: Hewitt, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0807829927
- Language: English
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Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina
$25.50 Add to cartAmerica is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of vot… [more below]
- Author: Leloudis, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 146966139X
- Language: English
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Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
$23.00 Add to cartAmong many legendary episodes from the life and career of men’s basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at th… [more below]
- Author: Chansky, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1469645491
- Language: English
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Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction
$30.00 Add to cartThe American South is famous for its astonishingly rich biodiversity. In this book, Georgann Eubanks takes a wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangere… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, Georgann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664909
- Language: English
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Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
$47.93 Add to cartHistory is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their … [more below]
- Author: Leogrande, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1469626608
- Language: English
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Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping: The Essential Green Guide
$45.00 Add to cartWhat if, one step at a time, we could make our gardens and landscapes more eco-friendly? Barbara W. Ellis’s colorful, comprehensive guide shows homeowners, gardeners, garden designers, and landscapers… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Barbara W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1469620979
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life
$36.00 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administr… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Leonard, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668041
- Language: English
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Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk
$25.00 Add to cartThis book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina’s extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state’s… [more below]
- Author: Menconi, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676788
- Language: English
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Fishing North Carolina’s Outer Banks: The Complete Guide to Catching More Fish from Surf, Pier, Sound, & Ocean
$24.00 Add to cartIn this hands-on, how-to guide to fishing North Carolina’s Outer Banks, expert fisherman Stan Ulanski combines his enthusiasm, his experience, and his scientific expertise to show anglers how to catch… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Ulanski, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0807872075
- Language: English
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All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
$34.50 Add to cartAfter a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home–only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically tr… [more below]
- Author: Elizondo Griest, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1469659247
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement
$28.00 Add to cartWhen Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Irani… [more below]
- Author: Afkhami, Mahnaz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1469669994
- Language: English
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Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne’s Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily … [more below]
- Author: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2018
- ISBN10: 146964052X
- Language: English
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Woodwright’s Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft
$31.95 Add to cartWith The Woodwright’s Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate “how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.” This volume… [more below]
- Author: Underhill, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: April 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0807840955
- Language: English
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Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
$23.95 Add to cartOne of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself fr… [more below]
- Author: Hanchett, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: February 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1469656442
- Language: English
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Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
$37.50 Add to cartIn the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Ash, Stephen V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1469650983
- Language: English
