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Land of Water, Land of Sky
Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books...
A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir
Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious ...
A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir
Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering a...
A Carolinian's Coastal Plain
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 af...
A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of ...
Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one Africa...
Songs & Stories of the Carolina Coast
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The Life of Jesse James
A Southern Musical
"Kudzu is the story of a boy who comes of age against the changing face of the American South"--Publisher....
Seaside to Sound Country
The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. Scott Ta...
A Carolinian's Eastern Streams
Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the regio...
A Nonfiction Novel
As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from h...
Musical comedy. Govenor of North Carolina, niece, and fiance' from Charleston become involved with band of pirtes who land on their shores in 1718....
A Swamp Memoir
Includes personal experience, travel narrative, oral and natural history of the Great Dismal Swamp...
The Life of Jesse James. Book by Jim Wann. Music and Lyrics by Bland Simpson & Jim Wann
A Novel of Southern Music
Take a ride down the twisting, bumpy road to country music stardom as you follow three hard driving performers bent on making their mark in Nashville....