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  • North Carolina

    Land of Water, Land of Sky

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Bland 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 Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state’s Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Little Rivers and Waterway Tales

    A Carolinian's Eastern Streams

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina’s “water-loving land,” revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region’s geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson tell the stories of those who have lived and worked in this country, chronicling both a distinct environment and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Clover Garden

    A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Between North Carolina’s coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North Carolina’s Piedmont is among the largest in the United States, sitting along an environmental crossroads where northern and southern flora and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Great Dismal

    A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Series series Chapel Hill Books
    Just 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 adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this engaging memoir, Bland Simpson, who grew up near the swamp in North Carolina, blends personal ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Taffy of Torpedo Junction

    by Nell Wise Wechter ...
    Series series Chapel Hill Books
    Back in printA longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina, during World War II. For readers of all ages, the book brings to life the dramatic wartime events ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Inner Islands

    A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina’s inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it not for the buffering Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows of the Atlantic. Instead they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Into the Sound Country

    A Carolinian's Coastal Plain

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson.Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Two Captains from Carolina

    Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War

    by Bland Simpson ...
    In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina — one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791– ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819–1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War–era South. With his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey

    A Nonfiction Novel

    by Bland Simpson ...
    As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search for her, and the case immediately became a national sensation. Bland Simpson, who first heard the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Coasts of Carolina

    Seaside to Sound Country

    by Bland Simpson, Scott D. Taylor ...
    The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. Scott Taylor, who has been photographing the coast for almost thirty years, and Bland Simpson, whose many coastal books have delighted readers for two decades, come together to offer an inviting visual and textual portrait organized around coastal themes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume II: North Carolina

    by Casey Clabough, Thomas Rain Crowe, Hal Crowther, Jan DeBlieu, Clyde Edgerton, Georgann Eubanks, Marianne Gingher, Judy Goldman, Stephanie Elizondo Griest0, Allen Gurganus1, Scott Huler2, Randall Kenan3, Jill McCorkle4, Michael McFee5, Robert Morgan6, Michael Parker7, Ron Rash8, Bland Simpson9 ...
    Series Book 2 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
    Best Creative Nonfiction of the South serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. This North Carolina volume, second in the series, contains essays that celebrate and document the Tar Heel state’s diverse cultures and geography, from the mountains to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey

    A Nonfiction Novel

    by Bland Simpson ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search for her, and the case immediately became a national sensation. Bland Simpson, who first heard the ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook