The sands of pride

"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.

המשפט הראשון: 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.

שנה

2002

שפה

English

הוצאה

Plume

מהדורות

1

עמודים

768

ISBN

9780452284425

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata