Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals write by Bland Simpson. This book was released on 2005-04-01. Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived
Ghosthunting North Carolina
Ghosthunting North Carolina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghosthunting North Carolina write by Kala Ambrose. This book was released on 2011-09-13. Ghosthunting North Carolina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Journey with author Kala Ambrose as she explores the most terrifying paranormal spots in the state of North Carolina. She begins in the coastal wetlands of East Carolina where she explores haunted lighthouses, battleships, forts, and the shipwrecked beaches where Blackbeard and his pirates still roam. She tours the Piedmont area of NC and visits the most actively haunted capitol in the US and interacts with the ghost of a former NC State Governor. Her journey continues west into the Blue Ridge Mountains where the ghost known as the pink lady and her friends await your presence at the historic Grove Park Inn, where many presidents, celebrities and ghosts have stayed over the decades. Travel information is provided to each haunted location for those brave enough to make the journey in person and for paranormal researchers who are interested in exploring haunted North Carolina. Join Kala Ambrose as your guide to Ghosthunting North Carolina as she takes you behind the scenes with detailed information about each destination.
Two Captains from Carolina
Two Captains from Carolina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Captains from Carolina write by Bland Simpson. This book was released on 2012-09-15. Two Captains from Carolina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation. Grandy, born a slave, captained freight boats on the Dismal Swamp Canal and bought his freedom three times before he finally gained it. He became involved in Boston abolitionism and ultimately appeared before the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1843. As a child, Maffitt was sent from his North Carolina home to a northern boarding school, and at thirteen he was appointed midshipman in the U.S. Navy, where he had a distinguished career. After North Carolina seceded from the Union, he enlisted in the Confederate navy and became a legendary blockade runner and raider. Both Grandy and Maffitt made names for themselves as they navigated very different routes through the turbulent waters of antebellum America.
Into the Sound Country
Into the Sound Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Into the Sound Country write by Bland Simpson. This book was released on 1997. Into the Sound Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces, "Into the Sound Country" offers an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain and its richly varied natural world, as seen by two natives of the region. 61 illustrations. 3 maps.
The Inner Islands
The Inner Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inner Islands write by Bland Simpson. This book was released on 2007-09-06. The Inner Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 are home to unique plant and animal species and well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an earlier human history.
