Globe Pequot imprint: 743 books
Day Trips® from Raleigh-Durham
Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Day Trips® from Raleigh-Durham is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover not far from Raleigh-Durham. The Triangle region's population totals over 1.7 million people, and this book invites them to:
* Do something prehistoric: Examine fossilized...
Day Trips® from Atlanta
Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Need a day away to relax, refresh, renew? Just get in your car and go! This first edition of Day Trips from Atlanta is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover in your own backyard. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way,...
by Juliet Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Written by a local and true insider, Insiders' Guide to Florida Keys & Key West is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Each guide is packed with useful tips on places to stay, restaurants, events, attractions, fun things to do with the kids, nightlife, recreation,...
Spooky New Orleans
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences under the New Orleans skies. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.
Haunted U.S. Battlefields
Ghosts, Hauntings, and Eerie Events from America's Fields of Honor
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great a toll in so short a time: War. Haunted...
Haunted Christmas
Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
In plenty of time for the holidays, here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. By a long-time believer in the paranormal who in the introduction tells...
Haunted Pet Stories
Tales Of Ghostly Cats, Spooky Dogs, And Demonic Bunnies
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Since ancient times, stories have abounded concerning the existence of ghost animals. From the Native American animal spirits, to the menacing demon dogs of medieval England, to present day encounters with animal apparitions, there can be little doubt that animals, like people, live after death and...
She Speaks to Me
Western Women's View of the West through Poetry and Song
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This anthology of “Cowgirl” poets, and edited by Jill Charlotte Stanford (The Cowgirl's Cookbook, Keep Cookin' Cowgirl) features the words of a wide range of Western women poets chosen for this collection by real ranching women and cowgirls across the West as the poets whose words most speak to them and the Western experience.
Mysteries and Legends of Arizona
True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Mysteries and Legends of Arizona explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Arizona history.
New England Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
New England**Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. From vampires to an angel, a ghost rapper to a phantom ship, New England**Myths and Legends pulls back the curtain on some of the region’s most fascinating and compelling stories.
Colorado: Mapping the Centennial State through History
Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
In a sense, the State of Colorado was born not on August 1, 1876—when President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting it to the Union as the thirty-eighth state—but on the day this great land was first depicted on a map. Over the centuries, each such map has become yet another precious...
California: Mapping the Golden State through History
Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Connecticut Coast
A Town-By-Town Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Connecticut Coast is a richly illustrated history of the Nutmeg State's storied shoreline, from New York State to Rhode Island. Researched and written by a longtime expert in Connecticut history, it comprises a brief narrative on each of the twenty-four shoreline communities, accompanied by the area's...
Freedom Trail: Boston
A Guided Tour through History
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Residents and visitors alike can journey back in time as they follow Boston's 2 ½-mile Freedom Trail past twenty-six historic landmarks that embody pivotal events in the formation of America—including the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
Timeline Books
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