Author: William C. Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312977139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Savannah, 1864. Confederate Captain Patrick Driscoll and his dear friend and manservant Shadrack "Shad" Bryan leave their tearful families to help fight for the Southern cause. They are to set up fort at Raccoon Island off Georgia's coast in a last-ditch effort to save their beloved city from Union attack. But only days into their assignment, the two men die in each other's arms in a Yankee bombardment. Though the men are gone, their legacy will live on-as will the legend of the priceless Driscoll family treasure the two men have buried on Raccoon Island. Four generations after the Civil War, many Confederate families still remain in Savannah, struggling through the twentieth-century in a South rife with hardball politics, personal vendettas and the hangover of war. John-Morgan Hartman, son of a newspaper man and great-great grandson of Captain Patrick Driscoll, goes to serve his country in Vietnam, unaware of the physical and psychological wounds that will befall him... Tony O'Boyle is an ambitious young politician who will stop at nothing and spare no one to get ahead-but his family's dark past will come back to haunt him... Lloyd Bryan, descended from slaves, is determined to succeed where his ancestors didn't. But his celebrity as a professional football player immerses him in a world of temptation that ultimately turns him toward religion... Charlotte Drayton, a successful television reporter, has always used her beauty to get her way-but the one man she can't have is the only one she wants... After many years, four friends will meet on the very island where the two confederate soldiers died in each other's arms. To find where they buried Driscoll's treasure-and to uncover the dangerous secrets of a prominent Savannah family. A gripping novel of history, intrigue, war, and love, Delirium of the Brave follows four generations of families contemplating the pain of the past and the promise of the future. Get swept away by this glorious saga rich with the sights, sounds, flavors, and people of the South's most stunning locale.
Delirium of the Brave
Author: William C. Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312977139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Savannah, 1864. Confederate Captain Patrick Driscoll and his dear friend and manservant Shadrack "Shad" Bryan leave their tearful families to help fight for the Southern cause. They are to set up fort at Raccoon Island off Georgia's coast in a last-ditch effort to save their beloved city from Union attack. But only days into their assignment, the two men die in each other's arms in a Yankee bombardment. Though the men are gone, their legacy will live on-as will the legend of the priceless Driscoll family treasure the two men have buried on Raccoon Island. Four generations after the Civil War, many Confederate families still remain in Savannah, struggling through the twentieth-century in a South rife with hardball politics, personal vendettas and the hangover of war. John-Morgan Hartman, son of a newspaper man and great-great grandson of Captain Patrick Driscoll, goes to serve his country in Vietnam, unaware of the physical and psychological wounds that will befall him... Tony O'Boyle is an ambitious young politician who will stop at nothing and spare no one to get ahead-but his family's dark past will come back to haunt him... Lloyd Bryan, descended from slaves, is determined to succeed where his ancestors didn't. But his celebrity as a professional football player immerses him in a world of temptation that ultimately turns him toward religion... Charlotte Drayton, a successful television reporter, has always used her beauty to get her way-but the one man she can't have is the only one she wants... After many years, four friends will meet on the very island where the two confederate soldiers died in each other's arms. To find where they buried Driscoll's treasure-and to uncover the dangerous secrets of a prominent Savannah family. A gripping novel of history, intrigue, war, and love, Delirium of the Brave follows four generations of families contemplating the pain of the past and the promise of the future. Get swept away by this glorious saga rich with the sights, sounds, flavors, and people of the South's most stunning locale.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312977139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Savannah, 1864. Confederate Captain Patrick Driscoll and his dear friend and manservant Shadrack "Shad" Bryan leave their tearful families to help fight for the Southern cause. They are to set up fort at Raccoon Island off Georgia's coast in a last-ditch effort to save their beloved city from Union attack. But only days into their assignment, the two men die in each other's arms in a Yankee bombardment. Though the men are gone, their legacy will live on-as will the legend of the priceless Driscoll family treasure the two men have buried on Raccoon Island. Four generations after the Civil War, many Confederate families still remain in Savannah, struggling through the twentieth-century in a South rife with hardball politics, personal vendettas and the hangover of war. John-Morgan Hartman, son of a newspaper man and great-great grandson of Captain Patrick Driscoll, goes to serve his country in Vietnam, unaware of the physical and psychological wounds that will befall him... Tony O'Boyle is an ambitious young politician who will stop at nothing and spare no one to get ahead-but his family's dark past will come back to haunt him... Lloyd Bryan, descended from slaves, is determined to succeed where his ancestors didn't. But his celebrity as a professional football player immerses him in a world of temptation that ultimately turns him toward religion... Charlotte Drayton, a successful television reporter, has always used her beauty to get her way-but the one man she can't have is the only one she wants... After many years, four friends will meet on the very island where the two confederate soldiers died in each other's arms. To find where they buried Driscoll's treasure-and to uncover the dangerous secrets of a prominent Savannah family. A gripping novel of history, intrigue, war, and love, Delirium of the Brave follows four generations of families contemplating the pain of the past and the promise of the future. Get swept away by this glorious saga rich with the sights, sounds, flavors, and people of the South's most stunning locale.
Correspondence between the Honourable William Charles Yelverton ... and Maria Theresa Longworth or Yelverton
Author: William Charles YELVERTON (Viscount Avonmore.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Information for William, Charles, Margaret, [and other] Dundases, children procreate of the marriage betwixt Sir Thomas Dundas ... and Lady Charlotte Fitzwilliam ... and the trustees of the said children, and Robert Bruce, Esq, of Kennet [and others] ... defenders; against Sir Thomas Dundas of Kerse, Baronet, pursuer. (February 6. 1783.) [Signed at end: Jo. Maclaurin.]
Author: John MACLAURIN (Lord Dreghorn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi
Author: William Charles Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
William Charles Wentworth
Author: Andrew Tink
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741768748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Publisher's description: Described by Manning Clark as 'Australia's greatest native son', William Charles Wentworth led a life of firsts. A man of rat cunning, great intelligence and sharp wit, he wrote the first book by an Australian to be published, was joint editor and proprietor of the colony's first independent newspaper, and founder of Australia's first university. But more importantly, with ruthless energy and a volcanic personality this 'convict brat' spent his life as an unrelenting advocate for comprehensive trial by jury, self-government and an Australian Confederation. Articulating a distinctly Australian identity to the world, he has a strong claim to be a founding father of modern Australia. Wentworth's great personal achievements have been largely forgotten - until now. Andrew Tink, who for nineteen years sat under the looming presence of Wentworth's portrait in the New South Wales Parliament, has turned his gaze to this great man of Australian history. The result is a biography that is long overdue and a fascinating and richly rewarding insight into the life of this complex man and the young nation he helped to create.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741768748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Publisher's description: Described by Manning Clark as 'Australia's greatest native son', William Charles Wentworth led a life of firsts. A man of rat cunning, great intelligence and sharp wit, he wrote the first book by an Australian to be published, was joint editor and proprietor of the colony's first independent newspaper, and founder of Australia's first university. But more importantly, with ruthless energy and a volcanic personality this 'convict brat' spent his life as an unrelenting advocate for comprehensive trial by jury, self-government and an Australian Confederation. Articulating a distinctly Australian identity to the world, he has a strong claim to be a founding father of modern Australia. Wentworth's great personal achievements have been largely forgotten - until now. Andrew Tink, who for nineteen years sat under the looming presence of Wentworth's portrait in the New South Wales Parliament, has turned his gaze to this great man of Australian history. The result is a biography that is long overdue and a fascinating and richly rewarding insight into the life of this complex man and the young nation he helped to create.
Daybreak, 2250 A.D.
Author: Andre Norton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Twenty-third century
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Twenty-third century
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Color and the Structural Sense
Author: William Charles Libby
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Slave Songs of the United States
Author: William Francis Allen
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557094349
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557094349
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.
Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian
Author: Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
No Enemy But Time
Author: William C. Harris, Jr.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312320126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A continuation of the saga that began in William C. Harris's first novel Delirium of the Brave, No Enemy But Time brings back some of the characters we met in Delirium... in a story tracing the intertwined lives of an IRA soldier turned Nazi spy placed on the Georgia coast in the 1940s and a young politician who thinks of him as a father. Rich with true historical detail and an intricate, page-turning plot, this novel is sure to knock the socks off of any fan of Bill Harris, Savannah, Georgia, or American history.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312320126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A continuation of the saga that began in William C. Harris's first novel Delirium of the Brave, No Enemy But Time brings back some of the characters we met in Delirium... in a story tracing the intertwined lives of an IRA soldier turned Nazi spy placed on the Georgia coast in the 1940s and a young politician who thinks of him as a father. Rich with true historical detail and an intricate, page-turning plot, this novel is sure to knock the socks off of any fan of Bill Harris, Savannah, Georgia, or American history.