Spydus Search Results - Subject: North Carolina -- Biography (Keywords)

To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker / Sydney Nathans.

What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? This book tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next 17 years trying to recover her family.
Author: Nathans, Sydney
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2013]
330 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 WALK - Available - 30111067940022

Blackbeard : the real pirate of the Caribbean / Dan Parry.

This work accompanies a multi-million pound BBC drama that explores the reality of the man behind the beard. Far from the caricature of films and novels, Blackbeard was a complex character who was a charming as he was ruthless.
Author: Parry, Dan
Published: London : National Maritime Museum, 2006.
192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, ports. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 364.164092 - Available - 30111041856245
Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 364.164092 - Available - 30111041853630