Publisher's Synopsis
From the rolling hills of Asheville through the tobacco-laden Piedmont and the boom-town banking centre of Charlotte, to the always elegant and occasionally deadly shores of Cape Hatteras, no state is more associated with a renaissance in Southern literature perhaps than North Carolina. From among hundreds of writers whose works could fill volumes of such books, this book affords us among the best the state has to offer, including such vignettes as: John White's search for the Lost Colony; William Bartram's cheerful recounting of smoking tobacco from a pipe adorned with feathers and strips of wampum; Daniel Defoe's depiction of the severing of Blackbeard's head; Orville Wright's diary entry of man's first flight attempt at Hags Head; Langston Hughes' reading poetry and breaking the colour barrier in 1930s Chapel Hill; F. Scott Fitzgerald's sojourns at the Grove Park inn in Asheville; Carson McCullers "golden eye" account of life on an army base; the inspiration behind Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel"; recollections of Armistead Maupin's college years; and so much more.
