University of North Carolina Press
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Hiking North Carolina’s State Parks: The Best Trail Adventures from the Appalachians to the Atlantic
$26.00 Add to cartNorth Carolina’s state parks reflect the natural abundance and variety in the Tar Heel State, with preserves located in each of the major regions from mountains to coast. With this guide, Johnny Mollo… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Molloy, Johnny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668238
- Language: English
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Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook
$21.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469660245
- Language: English
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An Environmental History of the Civil War
$32.50 Add to cartThis sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans’ relationship to the natural world. To be sure, envir… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Browning, Judkin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1469655381
- Language: English
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The Color of Christ: The Son of God & the Saga of Race in America
$47.93 Add to cartHow is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, E… [more below]
- Author: Blum, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1469618842
- Language: English
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Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
$26.00 Add to cartFrom the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with delight and detail how southern Jews reinvente… [more below]
- Author: Ferris, Marcie Cohen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0807871230
- 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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Foxfire Christmas: Appalachian Memories and Traditions
$30.00 Add to cartNew in paperback
This captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families as passed from one generation to the next. Based on Foxfire students’ interviews with … [more below]- Author: Wigginton, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 14 1996
- ISBN10: 080784618X
- 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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A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia
$28.00 Add to cartNestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia’s Eastern Shore is a distinctly southern place with an exceptionally souther… [more below]
- Author: Herman, Bernard L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1469669358
- 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 Harpsichord Owner’s Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners
$70.50 Add to cartKottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulatin… [more below]
- Author: Kottick, Edward L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 1992
- ISBN10: 0807843881
- 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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Pollinator Gardening for the South: Creating Sustainable Habitats
$25.00 Add to cartThis step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific information… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Danesha Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1469659417
- 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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Ghosts from the Coast
$27.00 Add to cartAcclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new collection of thirty-three ghost stories and legends…. [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 080784991X
- Language: English
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Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly
$23.00 Add to cartIn the world of literary journals and little magazines, the Carolina Quarterly is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the South. Founded in 1948 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil… [more below]
- Author: Houghton, Sophia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674564
- Language: English
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The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country
$20.00 Add to cartAs a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he’s seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673959
- Language: English
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
$35.00 Add to cartIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel–in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship … [more below]
- Author: Cothran, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676559
- Language: English
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Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the Covid-19 Pandemic
$25.00 Add to cartMichelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face. People… [more below]
- Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in Association with
- Author: Fishburne, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1469671239
- Language: English
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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South
$42.00 Add to cartRomare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black e… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 146966786X
- Language: English
