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Lord Baltimore : memoirs of the adventures of Ensworth Harding ; how he was abandoned on a highway by his father, his sufferings on a barrier island, his journey through coastal Georgia, his acquaintance with Liverpool, Tilly, Brantley, and notorious adventurers, with all that he suffered at the hands of man and fate written by himself, and now set forth / by S.G.M. Doster.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.O68 L67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doster, S. M. G. (Stephen M. G.), 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gullahs.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Georgia--Fiction.
- Georgia.
- Islands--Fiction.
- Islands.
- Gullahs--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Picaresque literature.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Winston-Salem, N.C. : J.F. Blair, [2002]
- Summary:
- Partly an homage to classics ranging from "Don Quixote" to "Huck Finn, Lord Baltimore" is a novel that creates its own universe and whose characters walk the line between the real and the fantastic.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 I receive an unusual gift on my eighteenth birthday: Tsisa a ki ke yu ha ... 3
- Chapter 2 In which I stumble upon a clandestine meeting in the woods ... 13
- Chapter 3 I attend a political rally 19
- Chapter 4 I meet Lord Baltimore 27
- Chapter 5 I meet Susan, learn about the kidnapped child, and become a business partner 37
- Chapter 6 We scheme to make money. I am deceived 47
- Chapter 7 I witness a poker game 57
- Chapter 8 Lord Baltimore and I travel to Camelot 70
- Chapter 9 In which we meet Brantley and experience strange and wonderful events in Camelot ... 83
- Chapter 10 We visit Pigge Hammock 104
- Chapter 11 We cross Devil Swamp and save a man 110
- Chapter 12 We meet the Latin speaker and fish from the forbidden creek 116
- Chapter 13 In which we encounter the one-eyed house and Tilly ... 130
- Chapter 14 I go to Folktown. Brantley and I meet the Waving Man 147
- Chapter 15 I confront the Waving Man. We proceed with Operation Sapsucker 161
- Chapter 16 I get lost in the Devil's Maze 188
- Chapter 17 I am rescued 197
- Chapter 18 His Grace and the high sheriff duel 218
- Chapter 19 We ride out the hurricane 235
- Chapter 20 After the deluge ... 247
- Chapter 21 Brantley and I witness the Miracle of the Evinrudes and attend a revival 258
- Chapter 22 In which I witness a reunion ... 284
- Chapter 23 We reach Savannah. Sweet destiny ... 298
- Chapter 24 I deliver the envelope 306.
- ISBN:
- 0895872641
- OCLC:
- 48494269
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