Books with author William Duncan

Spellbinding author William E. Dunstan invites you to sit by his side for a guided tour through his inspirational and magical series Adventures of a Southern Boyhood. The second book, Running with the Grim Reaper, opens with the author's birth in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the titanic hand of the Second World War grips the globe. The narrative highlights extraordinary men, women, and children tramping through an unforgettable world simmering with tragedies, racial conflicts, murders, mysteries, ghosts, unconventional friendships, romantic liaisons, lost loves, and bizarre true stories. This balanced, engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern memoirs.

'Stories are something you carry with you, something to last your entire life, to be passed on to your children, and their children for evermore.'Duncan Williamson Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland's Traveling People, has been celebrated as the bearer of Scotland's greatest national treasure: the richest trove of story and song in Europe. In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk and fairy tales, collected from sixty years of traveling around Scotland. This collection includes stories about silver horses and golden birds, cunning lions and trilling nightingales, brave princesses and magic scarecrows, the four seasons and old Father Time. At the heart of each story is a lesson about life and what it means to be a good person. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice, full of color, humor and life.

Ivan is a particularly mean Hummingbird, showing animosity to all other birds, and carrying on an adversarial relationship with the man that provides a feeder. Follow his odyssey as this bird who weighs less than a nickel travels from Central America to the Tennessee for the summer of activity and then his journey back south. He eventually gets into a very dangerous situation. Will he recover?

Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland's Travelling People, has been celebrated as the bearer of Scotland's greatest national treasure: the richest trove of story and song in Europe. In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk and fairy tales, collected from sixty years of travelling around Scotland. This collection includes stories about silver horses and golden birds, cunning lions and trilling nightingales, brave princesses and magic scarecrows, the four seasons and old Father Time. At the heart of each story is a lesson about life and what it means to be a good person. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice, full of colour, humour and life.

Take a fascinating stroll with William E. Dunstan through the pages of Budding as a Young Scientist, the third volume of Adventures of a Southern Boyhood, his exhilarating memoir of epic beauty and power. Join him in exploring Elizabeth City, his magical and mysterious hometown in northeastern North Carolina. The author and his captivating friends seek spellbinding adventures, stumble into bizarre shenanigans, and form memorable bonds during the remarkable period after the traumatizing Second World War. They tell and retell vivid stories about their hometown, the hub of a region haunted by romance, legend, and murder. Meanwhile young William dreams of becoming a second Thomas A. Edison and engineers a series of colorful experiments, including a dazzling wall of fire, earning him the playful nickname Mad Scientist. He writes with candor and wit and offers reader unexpected glimpses of the spellbinding people shaping his boyhood world.

Spellbinding author William E. Dunstan invites you to sit by his side for a guided tour through his inspirational and magical series Adventures of a Southern Boyhood. The second book, Running with the Grim Reaper, opens with the author's birth in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the titanic hand of the Second World War grips the globe. The narrative highlights extraordinary men, women, and children tramping through an unforgettable world simmering with tragedies, racial conflicts, murders, mysteries, ghosts, unconventional friendships, romantic liaisons, lost loves, and bizarre true stories. This balanced, engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern memoirs.

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