Two Captains from Carolina: 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 African American

Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chroni

In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set,

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) wrote his novel "The Captain from Connecticut" in 1941, using the pseudonym C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester. The story of "