| Facing the Flag Contributor(s): Hoey, Frances Cashel (Translator), Verne, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544082010 ISBN-13: 9781544082011 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.50 lbs) 162 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The carte de visite received that day, June 15, 189-, by the director of the establishment of Healthful House was a very neat one, and simply bore, without escutcheon or coronet, the name: COUNT D'ARTIGAS. Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was written in lead pencil: "On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, Pamlico Sound." The capital of North Carolina-one of the forty-four states of the Union at this epoch-is the rather important town of Raleigh, which is about one hundred and fifty miles in the interior of the province. It is owing to its central position that this city has become the seat of the State legislature, for there are others that equal and even surpass it in industrial and commercial importance, such as Wilmington, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Edenton, Washington, Salisbury, Tarborough, Halifax, and New-Berne. The latter town is situated on estuary of the Neuse River, which empties itself into Pamlico Sound, a sort of vast maritime lake protected by a natural dyke formed by the isles and islets of the Carolina coast. |
