Describes the experiences of a young boy growing up in western North Carolina during the fifties and sixties

Listening for the Crack of Dawn

Biographies & Memoirs

Davis, Donald

Arts & Literature

Demco Media

Listening for the Crack of Dawn (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Turtleback Books

A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.

Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians

Business & Money

Economics

University of Georgia Press

Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Danish thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes Danish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL� or TOEIC� preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Danish speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Danish in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement� (AP�) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Danish Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Danish or English.TOEFL�, TOEIC�, AP� and Advanced Placement� are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.

Ethan Frome: A Dramatization of the Novel

WHARTON,EDITH

Owen Davis and Donald Davis

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Barking at a Fox-Fur Coat

Winner of YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Highly acclaimed, award winning author Donald Davis wants us all to remember and share our family stories. Among other tall tales, he writes about how his uncle hung onto the multitudinous Democratic votes of the Ratherton clan while at the very same time keeping them from shooting Davis' squirrels in a lean year; how he got Phyleete, wife Jolly, their eleven sub-natural sons and one forgettably natural daughter to move their log house from the unlikely place they'd built it; and how he tried to solve the problem of the chatty Misses Lena and Lucy Leatherwood, who clogged up the eight-party telephone line so badly that Uncle Frank paid for his new phone four months before he ever got the chance to talk on it. 
Davis offers seventeen vintage family stories, including “Rainy Weather,” “The Southern Bells,” and “Old Man Hawkins' Lucky Day.” These stories from North Carolina make use of historical context with references to sharecropping and emancipation. The adventurous tricksters in these stories emphasize the importance of kindness, fairness and respect.

Barking At a Fox-fur Coat

August House

Every family has stories told by and sometimes about relatives on the occasion of any family gathering. Donald Davis wants us all to remember and tell those family stories. Here he sets an example with some favorites from his North Carolina family, which has had, perhaps, a few more fine storytellers per capita than your average tribe.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Audiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. Developed in oral performance, Davis'stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers. The fourteen stories in this, his signature title, are so convincingly private as to be universal. The laughter, silent tears, and thunderous applause these stories elicit in live performance and the many repeat-buyers who give the book to friend after friend prompted us to commemorate them in this anniversary edition.

Listening for the Crack of Dawn (American Storytelling)

Telling Your Own Stories is designed for families, teachers, counselors, or anyone who wants to inspire storytelling either in themselves or in others. The book has proved useful for preachers, salespeople, conference and seminar presenters, librarians, scout leaders, and business motivators especially. Through a series of memory prompts, the user is led through the creation of plots, of place, and of characters. Donald Davis, one of Americas most prominent storytellers, offers his advice in this first "how-to" title.

Telling Your Own Stories (American Storytelling)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jack Always Seeks His Fortune: Authentic Appalachian Jack Tales (American Storytelling from August House)

A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows"

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

August House Pub Inc

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Listening for the Crack of Dawn

Listening for the Crack of Dawn (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians

Ethan Frome: A Dramatization of the Novel

Barking At a Fox-fur Coat

Barking At a Fox-fur Coat

Listening for the Crack of Dawn (American Storytelling)

Listening for the Crack of Dawn

Telling Your Own Stories (American Storytelling)

Jack Always Seeks His Fortune: Authentic Appalachian Jack Tales (American Storytelling from August House)