Virginia Bookshelf – serie
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8 produkter
Virginia Adventure
Roanoke to James Towne - an Archaeological and Historical Odyssey
Häftad, 1997
500 kr
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This history of England's first ventures into the New World combines information gathered from excavations of sites with accounts from journals, letters and official records. The exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and the life and death of Pocahontas are illuminated.
Blue Moon in Poorwater
A Novel
Häftad, 1998
283 kr
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In the summer of 1968, ten-year-old Dorie's brother Willie, a religious fanatic and suspected drug user, returns to town. His return becomes a catalyst for a string of tragic events and Dorie struggles to understand the discrimination in the world around her.
Once There Was a Farm...a Country Childhood Remembered
Häftad, 1998
306 kr
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A memoir of life on a backwoods Virginia farm in the first half of the 20th century. Virginia Bell Dabney recalls the hardships of the Depression, the fire that destroyed her home and how her mother struggled to make a life for her family, but also finds much to rejoice in her country childhood.
Blood of Paradise
Häftad, 2000
283 kr
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A tale of a sophisticated couple going back to the land. The restlessness that compels Anna and Steadman to move from the city to a small mountain farm in Virginia is brought into high relief by the cycles of the natural world, and by the arrival of Anna's demonic twin sister.
Waters of Potowmack
Av Paul Metcalf
Häftad, 2002
297 kr
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Waters of Potowmack is a documentary history of the Potomac River and its wide, fertile basin - the setting for much of early United States history. A collage of primary accounts, it extends from the first explorers and colonists, the building of the Capitol, and the incidents of the Civil War …
Let Me Lie
Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History
Häftad, 2001
297 kr
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When Let Me Lie was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. Deaf to James Branch Cabell's many-layered ironic wit, they read the book as a paean to the old South. Readers of this new paperback edition are unlikely to repeat the mistake. Let Me Lie is …
Book of Numbers
Häftad, 2001
348 kr
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In the tradition of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley, Robert Deane Pharr's novel tells the tale of two black men, Dave and Blueboy, traveling waiters who establish themselves as numbers runners in a fictionalized Richmond of the 1930s. Published to great acclaim in 1969, The Book of Numbers centers …
We Were Always Free
The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia - a 200-year Family History
Häftad, 2005
200 kr
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In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to be a slave and the property of Colonel James Madison, father of the future president of the United States. This daughter, though born to a free mulatto, …
