Brilliant Passage

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• Novelist Philip Gerard sailed aboard Mystic Seaport's classic schooner-yacht Brilliant from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Mystic. In these pages, his journa... Lees meer

Cape Fear Rising

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city's lawyers, businessmen, and other profession... Lees meer

Down the Wild Cape Fear

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• In Down the Wild Cape Fear , novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides the... Lees meer

The Art of Creative Research

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
• All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the ever... Lees meer

The Last Battleground

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Co... Lees meer

The Dark of the Island

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• Nick Wolf is a public research specialist for NorthAm Oil Company, but he likes to think of himself as the company storyteller. Nick, who believes in ... Lees meer

Hatteras Light

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• Compelling story of the dedicated keepers of Hatteras lighthouse, set off NC's Outer Banks during the final days of WWI. Lees meer

The Politics of Time

• Paperback | Engels | Critical South
• As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generall... Lees meer

North Carolina in the 1940s

Philip Gerard

• Hardcover | Engels | North Carolina Through the Decades
• This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely... Lees meer

Writing Creative Nonfiction

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction Writing Creative Nonfiction presents more t... Lees meer

Things We Do When No One Is Watching

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• Fiction. An 18-year-old driving up to Canada to escape the Vietnam draft, a lonely housewife trying to attract the ghost of a ten-year-old housemaid, ... Lees meer

The Patron Saint of Dreams

Philip Gerard

• Paperback | Engels
• Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard's world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the... Lees meer

North Carolina in the 1950s

Philip Gerard

• Hardcover | Engels | North Carolina Through the Decades | nr. 2
• Notable events of the 1950s in North Carolina, the second book in this North Carolina history series. This book is the second in a series of small, ri... Lees meer