A Reading List for North Carolinians

North Carolina
A History

by William S. Powell

A concise history by the leading authority on the people and events that have shaped North Carolina over four centuries. "A sweeping look at the whole panorama of North Carolina history."--North Carolina Historical Review
248 pp., $12.95 paperback

   


Discovering North Carolina
A Tar Heel Reader
Edited by Jack Claiborne and William Price

This splendid anthology draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines. "A lively, rich compendium, funny and poignant and inspiring, like North Carolina. And full of surprises. I really love the book."--Charles Kuralt
390 pp., $34.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback

   


Tar Heel Politics 2000
by Paul Luebke

"An insightful and provocative analysis that challenges the conventional wisdom about modern North Carolina politics."--Ed Williams, Charlotte Observer

"Every public official, political activist, and interested observer of the state's politics should read this fascinating, insightful, lively, and provocative book."--Merle Black
288 pp., $34.95 hardcover; $14.95 paperback

   


North Carolina Architecture
by Catherine W. Bishir
Photography by Tim Buchman

Oversized, with stunning photographs, this book captures the grand and the humble buildings that define North Carolina. "An excellent history of the architecture of an American state."--New York Times Book Review
532 pp., 573 illus., 18 in color, $85.00 hardcover

   


The North Carolina Gazetteer
by William S. Powell

From Coldass Creek to Devils Elbow to Mush Island, a compendium of North Carolina place names. More than 20,000 entries locate the counties, towns, cities, rivers, creeks, lakes, mountains, gaps, ridges, bays, sounds, and inlets of the Tar Heel state. A fascinating and indispensable reference.
579 pp., $18.95 paperback

   


North Carolina's Hurricane History
by Jay Barnes

A richly illustrated record of more than fifty hurricanes known to have struck the Tar Heel state from the days of the first European explorers through hurricanes Bertha and Fran in 1996. Newspaper reports, National Weather Service records, and eyewitness descriptions complete this fascinating chronicle.
216 pp., 170 illus., $34.95 hardcover; $19.95 paperback

   


Bill Neal's Southern Cooking
Revised and Enlarged Edition
by Bill Neal

Contemporary southern recipes, rooted in history, from the founding chef of Chapel Hill's Crook's Corner restaurant. Craig Claiborne said, "Bill Neal is a genius at the stove."
219 pp., $29.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback

   


Birds of the Carolinas
by Eloise F. Potter, James F. Parnell, and Robert P. Teulings

An illustrated guide to the more than 400 species of birds that inhabit the Tar Heel state, with brief descriptions and notes on range, feeding and nesting habits. "Establishes a new standard for state bird books."--Audubon Naturalist News
416 pp., $19.95 paperback

   


Turners and Burners
The Folk Potters of North Carolina

by Charles G. Zug III

"An excellent book to read if you are interested in North Carolina, American ceramics, folk life, or general craft practices, and it will undoubtedly remain a classic for many years to come."--Winterthur Portfolio
473 pp., 286 illus., 20 in color, $49.95 hardcover (Out-of-print); $34.95 paperback

   


A Southern Garden
by Elizabeth Lawrence

First published in 1942, this was the first book to address the needs of gardeners in the South. More than 50 years later, Lawrence's information is still fresh. Lawrence has been called the Jane Austen of garden writing. "An extraordinary evocation of the actual joy of handling plants and working the soil."--Penelope Hobhouse in Garden Style
288 pp., 19 watercolors, $29.95 hardcover; $16.95 paperback

   


The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958
by David Stick

David Stick has lived on the outer Banks since he was nine years old and is now the most prominent historian of the area. In this book he tells the fascinating story of the Banks and Bankers; of whalers, stockmen, lifesavers, wreckers, boatmen, and fisher men; of the constantly changing inlets famous for channel bass fishing; and of the once thriving Diamond City that disappeared completely in a three-year period.
367 pp., $27.50 hardcover; $14.95 paperback

   


Cabins in the Laurel
by Muriel Earley Sheppard
Photographs by Bayard Wootten

A classic book on Appalachian life, by Muriel Earley Sheppard, a native New Yorker who moved to North Carolina's Toe River Valley in 1928. Her account of life in the mountains includes 128 striking photographs by well-known Chapel Hill photographer Bayard Wootten. "The most friendly, easily read, vigorous, zestful portrait of Appalachians we have from the past."--novelist John Ehle, from the foreword
302 pp., 128 photographs, $34.95 hardcover; $22.50 paperback

   


Home | Featured Books