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The Science of Fly-Fishing
Ulanski, StanleyThe foundations of fly-fishing history, literature, and mechanics are firmly anchored in the disciplines of science, yet until now there has been no comprehensive work that...
Oh, Shenandoah
Paintings of the Historic Valley and River
Kushnir, AndreiThe Shenandoah Valley is widely renowned for its beauty and its idyllic landscape of farms, fields, historic towns, and Civil War battlefields. Framed to the east and west by...
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 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...
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...
Lake Fishing in Virginia
Gooch, BobLake Brittle, Gardy’s Millpond, Powhatan Ponds, Keokee Lake, Lake Shenandoah... The number of lakes that offer great fishing in Virginia is substantial, from 3-acre Phelps Pond...
Democratizing the Old Dominion
Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824–1861
Shade, William G.The emergence of the two-party system in the 1830s led to the democratization of the nation and to decades of heated dispute about democracy. In Democratizing the Old Dominion...
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...
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...
Virginians and Their Histories
Tarter, BrentHistories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an understanding of the...
Fishing the Shenandoah Valley
An Angler's Guide
Smith, M. W.The Shenandoah Valley is famous for its role in Civil War history and for its great natural beauty. But there is something else: it is a tremendous place to fish. Fishing...
Virginia Fishing Guide
Gooch, BobIn this second edition of Bob Gooch’s Virginia Fishing Guide, M. W. Smith offers an updated version of a classic work of Virginia outdoor literature. Providing a new...
Enjoying Virginia Outdoors
A Guide to Wildlife Management Areas
Gooch, BobMost outdoor enthusiasts in Virginia have hiked, camped, paddled, hunted, or fished in the state's many parks, refuges, and other public lands, from the barrier islands to the...
Chronology of Virginia and the War of Independence, 1763-1783
Selby, John E.[Book description not available]
Waters of Potowmack
Metcalf, PaulWaters of Potowmack is a documentary history of the Potomac River and its wide, fertile basin—the setting for much of early United States history. A collage of primary accounts...
Let Me Lie
Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History
Cabell, James BranchWhen Let Me Lie was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. Deaf to James Branch Cabell's many-layered ironic wit, they...
Family Preserve
Stuart, DabneyExhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we have come to associate with Dabney Stuart’s work, this volume, Stuart's fifteenth, weaves a series of finely...
Migrants against Slavery
Virginians and the Nation
Schwarz, Philip J.A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some...
"Answer at Once"
Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938
Powell, Katrina M.With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah...
Fishing the New River Valley
An Angler's Guide
Smith, M. W."Care not, I, to fish in seas
Fresh rivers best my mind to please
Whose sweet calm course I contemplate
And seek in life to imitate."
—Izaak Walton...
Landon Carter
An Inquiry into the Personal Values and Social Imperatives of the Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Greene, Jack P.Intended as a plausible psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, thi study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values. It calls...
John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609
Rountree, Helen C., Clark, Wayne E., Mountford, KentCaptain John Smith's voyages throughout the new world did not end--or, for that matter, begin--with the trip on which he was captured and brought to the great chief Powhatan....
Empires in the Forest
Jamestown and the Making of America
Chenoweth, Avery, Llewellyn, RobertFrom the author and photographer who brought us "a new genre of art book" in Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity comes a new collaborative effort...
OpenGrounds at the University of Virginia
Link, Learn, Lead, Live
Sherman, William, Hepler, LindseyOpenGrounds is a University of Virginia initiative that builds on a legacy of innovation to create new programs, places, and partnerships; to catalyze new approaches to...
Once There Was a Farm
A Country Childhood Remembered
Dabney, Virginia BellNearly fifty years after she left the family farm of her childhood, Virginia Bell Dabney was compelled to write a memoir. She and her two sisters were raised on a Virginia farm...
