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Seashore Chronicles
Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Island
Barnes, Brooks M., Truitt, Barry R.ASSATEAGUE, Chincoteague, Parramore, Smith's, Hog, Wallop's: The names of Virginia's isolated barrier islands evoke their beauty and wildness, their dynamic ecology. Drawing...
Virginia's Hunting Guide
Gooch, BobThis valuable guide provides Virginia hunters with detailed information on the various public hunting lands in the state, including character of the terrain, game species...
In Good Keeping
Virginia's Folklife Apprenticeships
Lohman, JonPairing experienced master artists with eager learners, folklife apprenticeships in Virginia help ensure that a particular art form is passed on in ways that are conscious of...
Virginia's Historic Courthouses
Peters, John O., Peters, Margaret T.Featuring 140 color photographs of Virginia's courthouses, this book is a visual treat as well as an innovative approach to history and architecture. It contains a wealth of...
Preserving the Old Dominion
Historic Preservation and Virginia Traditionalism
Lindgren, James M.In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first...
The Horse in Virginia
An Illustrated History
Campbell, Julie A.Virginia's horse tradition goes back 400 years, to when horses accompanied some of the first settlers in Jamestown. Since then, the state’s special relationship with the horse...
Kingsmill Plantation, 1619-1800
Archaeology of Country Life in Colonial Virginia
Kelso, William M.In 1971 William Kelso happened almost by chance on an archaeological find that would open a new door on the rural history of colonial Tidewater Virginia. Erosion had revealed a...
Picturing Harrisonburg
Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City since 1828
Ehrenpreis, David Picturing Harrisonburg provides the most vibrant examination available of the history of the Virginia city, once a frontier town founded in the 1730s but now a...
Chronology of Virginia and the War of Independence, 1763-1783
Selby, John E.[Book description not available]
City of Trees
The Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Washington, D.C., Third Edition
Choukas-Bradley, Melanie, Alexander, PollyWashington, D.C., boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and City of Trees has been the authoritative guide for locating,...
Virginia
The New Dominion, A History from 1607 to the Present
Dabney, Virginius[Book description not available]
Richmond
The Story of a City
Dabney, VirginiusRichmond: The Story of a City chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding in the early 1700s by William Byrd II to its most...
Albemarle
A Story of Landscape and American Identity
Chenoweth, AveryIn Albemarle, photographer Robert Llewellyn and writer Avery Chenoweth explore how the landscape of Albemarle County, where the Virginia piedmont meets the Blue Ridge...
Hidden History
African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia
Rainville, LynnIn Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the...
Virginia Reconsidered
New Histories of the Old Dominion
Hardwick, Kevin R., Hofstra, Warren R.In their introduction to Virginia Reconsidered, Kevin Hardwick and Warren Hofstra note that "Virginia’s history is powerfully situated, in both the popular and the scholarly...
Fishing the Roanoke Valley
An Angler's Guide
Smith, M. W.With easy access to the Roanoke and James Rivers, Carvins Cove Reservoir and Smith Mountain Lake, and the many other streams and lakes in Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Henry,...
The Dooleys of Richmond
An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South
Bayliss, Mary Lynn The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who...
The Five George Masons
Copeland, Pamela C., McMaster, Richard K.A Founding Father, a patriot in the Revolutionary War, a delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention, and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the U.S....
The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind
Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University
O’Shaughnessy, Andrew J.Already renowned as a statesman, Thomas Jefferson in his retirement from government turned his attention to the founding of an institution of higher learning. Never merely a...
Thomas Jefferson
Landscape Architect
Nichols, Frederick Doveton, Griswold, Ralph E.Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer...
Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse
A Modern American Hunter/Jumper System
Cronin, Paul D.A protégé of the legendary Vladimir S. Littauer and for more than thirty years director of the riding program at Sweet Briar College, Paul D. Cronin is a well-known and highly...
The Wild Coast
Exploring the Natural Attractions of the Mid-Atlantic
Badger, Curtis J.The Eastern corridor of the United States may be notorious for overdevelopment, but Curtis J. Badger offers a challenge in his The Wild Coast: Exploring the Natural Attractions...
Shenandoah
Views of Our National Park
Moore, Hullihen WilliamsThe only collection of photographs devoted to one of America’s natural treasures, Shenandoah: Views of Our National Park documents one man’s decades-long fascination with this...
Conserving the Commonwealth
The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Virginia
Peters, Margaret T., Hass, Patricia C. Conserving the Commonwealth is the book that anyone interested in conservation and environmental issues has been waiting for. This history describes the earliest days...