Books in the Chapel Hill Books series

This novel tells the story of two boys growing up in Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Drawing on the Old Testament story of ""David and Jonathan"", it tells of the boys friendship and love. The book was part of a small body of gay literature when it was first published in 1950.

Teenagers Corky and Toby row out into the swamp off Stumpy Point, North Carolina, drawn by the mysterious light that hovers above it. Thrown back in time by a sudden explosion, they find themselves floating above 17th-century England, as the life of Blackbeard the Pirate unfolds below.

This memoir blends Bland Simpson's personal experience with travel narrative, oral history and natural history to create a portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people.

Presents the fruits of a scientific as well as affectionate association between a dedicated naturalist and the birds, mammals, and insects of a small, wild world. Originally published to wide acclaim in 1969, this book is an enduring classic of nature writing, and readers everywhere can appreciate it as an engaging introduction to a naturalist's sensibility and way of looking at the world.

The late Charlotte Hilton Green was an early and influential champion of the Tar Heel state's natural environment, and her popular weekly column, 'Out-of-Doors in Carolina,' appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer for forty-two years (1932-74). A classic in the field of popular nature writing, Birds of the South was originally published by UNC Press in 1933, preceding by a year Roger Tory Peterson's landmark volume, A Field Guide to the Birds. In this engaging collection of her early newspaper columns, Green details more than sixty varieties of birds common to southern gardens, fields, and woods. Quotations, poems, and anecdotes complement the descriptions of each species and help to make the book accessible even to novice nature lovers. In a new introduction and appendix, Eloise Potter highlights Green's enduring contribution to nature study and brings the book's scientific information up to date.

This work identifies 11 major natural gardens on the North American continent. It gives an account of the vegetation and habitats of each community and then identifies and describes the wildflowers found there.