The sands of pride
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
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Author
Publication
2002 - Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
188,500 words, Guess
Page Count
754 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesandsofpride00trot
- Internet Archivesandsofpride0000trot
- ISBN-100786710136
- ISBN-139780786710133
- Goodreads700229
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002022697
- OCLC Control Number49225925
- Better World Books9780786710133
- Open LibraryOL18521374M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3570.R596 S26 2002
- LCCPS3570.R596S26 2002
Description
"Centered in Wilmington, North Carolina, during a bawdy "Golden Age," Trotter's saga intertwines the fates of more than two dozen major characters - real and fictional, Union and Confederate, combatants and civilians. Chronicled are the exploits of staid plantation owner turned audacious sea captain Matthew Sloane; intrepid Federal naval officer William Barker Cushing; sadistic bushwacker Cyrus Bone; the seductive Confederate spy, Belle O'Neal; Jacob Landau, scion of a Jewish merchant family at whose emporium blockade-runners' goods bring in Confederate dollars; and Augustus Hobart-Hampden, unofficial representative of Queen Victoria to the Confederacy and lover of Jacob's daughter, Largo. At the confluence of the many stories flowing through this grand narrative towers Fort Fisher - literally built of sand - the most formidable earthen fortress ever erected in America. This symbol of Southern defiance, the guardian of Wilmington's boisterous docks, helped keep the South stocked with arms and supplies."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
On the last day of the year 1860, John Williams Ellis sat alone at his desk in the governor's in the governor's mansion in Raleigh, North California.
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- Fiction
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