Welcome to UNC Press's selection of books on all things southern. From southern food and music, Native American folktales and colorful nature guides, to books on southern history and architecture, even ghost stories and sea-faring adventures -- we hope you'll find Southern Gateways the place to find wonderful books about our part of the country.

Whether you're planning supper or a road trip, or just want to read a good ghost story in the hammock or by the fire, these books provide the information and insight, and perhaps, inspiration to go there, do that, read more.

Here are some great new additions in our southern bookshelf. You can learn more about these and other books by browsing our Southern Gateways brochure online.

Sports

Carolina Basketball: A Century of Excellence, by Adam Lucas, with a foreword by Dean Smith and an afterword by Roy Williams
NC State Basketball: 100 Years of Innovation, by Tim Peeler and Roger Winstead
Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France, by Daniel S. Pierce
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation, edited by Harvey H. Jackson III

Culture and History

Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color, by Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll
Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg, by Rod Gragg
Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, by Leonard Rogoff
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State, by Hannah Gill
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, by Marcie Cohen Ferris (new in paperback)

On the Road

North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History, Second Edition, by William Powell and Michael Hill
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook, by Georgann Eubanks
Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia, by Jeffrey C. Beane, Alvin L. Braswell, Joseph C. Mitchell, William M. Palmer, and Julian R. Harrison III, with photographs by Jack Dermid and with contributions by Bernard S. Martof and Joseph R. Bailey

In the Mountains

Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians, by Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians, by Alan Jabbour and Karen Singer Jabbour
Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, by Anne Mitchell Whisnant (new in paperback)

On the Coast

The Coasts of Carolina: Seaside to Sound Country, by Bland Simpson and Scott Taylor
The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle, by Bland Simpson, with photos by Ann Cary Simpson (new in paperback)
Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America, by Tom Carlson (new in paperback)
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic, by Stan Ulanski (new in paperback)

We hope you'll enjoy this selection of books, and that you'll visit Southern Gateways again and again for new ways to explore what it means to be from the south.

The UNC Press Staff