From the first settleement on Roanoke Island and the birth of Virginia Dare through the revolution that created a new nation and the Civil War that tore it apart, Jekel weaves a vast and colorful tapestry, bursting with the tempestuous beauty of the land, surging with human dreams and peopled with courageous women and bold men whose joys and sorrows forged the triumphant history that is the glory of the Carolinas. Tess...A twist of fate made her the bride of a dashing ex-privateer. But it was her strength and passions that would help forge a bold new nation. Della...Born to Tess's beautiful younger sister Glory, she married for passion. Then, alone in the aftermath of revolution, she would transform her plantation into one of the greatest tobacco estates in the Carolinas. Seleta...The wife of a Quaker abolitionist, she saw her beloved land fall to the Yankees. Yet it wasn't the horror of war that became her greatest challenge...it was her battle to save her young son... 1995. PB in good+condition.
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