

King's Mountain
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
Series: Ballad Series #10
Narrator: Tom Stechshulte
Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/06/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
Series: Ballad Series #10
Narrator: Tom Stechshulte
Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/06/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.
Although this book is designated as a continuation of McCrumb's rich "ballad" series, it departs in many ways from the other ballad novels. It is a rich and informative coup in historical writing, bringing dead history to life, as do McCrumb's other novels. However, it lacks the connectors between p......more
Early in this historical Fiction about the King's Mountain battle in the Revolutionary War A seasoned veteran tell a young boy that war is as much about walking and waiting and sleeping rough as it is adventure and excitement. That would be a fairly good description of this book.It is 326 pages in l......more
I have always enjoyed Ms McCrumb's writing. She knows the people of Appalachia and writes about them with pride and warmth. I was especially interested in this book as one of my North Carolina ancestors was an Over Mountain man. I have always been proud of that line of my family but more so today af......more
I've read about 6 Sharyn McCrumb books, and I must say, this is my favorite one. I love history, and my husband's family comes from the part of NC where this is set, so I found it especially interesting. It is definitely more history than fiction, but she writes it very well and she drew me into the......more