Jeffrey's Latest 13
More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2016
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-0-8173-1912-0 (ISBN)
Description
Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home in Selma, Alabama, Kathryn Tucker Windham traveled the South, visiting the sites of spectral legends in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, among other places. In Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts, a sequel to her landmark Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Windham introduces readers to thirteen more of Jeffrey's ghostly acquaintances, each with the charm and universal appeal that has created hundreds of thousands of Jeffrey fans.
Among the other hair-raising tales in this collection, Windham spotlights the apparitions of academia. From the three Yankee soldiers who haunt the University of Alabama's Civil War-era Little Round House to the Confederate soldier who resides in the University Chapel at Auburn University, Alabama's institutions of higher learning seem to have more than a few paranormal pupils.
Photographs of the sites about which Windham writes are one of the best-loved features of her series of "Jeffrey the Ghost" books. Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen features the image of a beautiful child who, though not photographed in life, reappeared long enough to be photographed with his bereaved father's borrowed camera. Bewitched readers will find the startling photograph of the child in the next-to-last chapter, just pages before he book's photograph of Windham's own spectral muse, Jeffrey.
This commemorative edition returns Windham's thrilling classic to its original 1982 keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.
Among the other hair-raising tales in this collection, Windham spotlights the apparitions of academia. From the three Yankee soldiers who haunt the University of Alabama's Civil War-era Little Round House to the Confederate soldier who resides in the University Chapel at Auburn University, Alabama's institutions of higher learning seem to have more than a few paranormal pupils.
Photographs of the sites about which Windham writes are one of the best-loved features of her series of "Jeffrey the Ghost" books. Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen features the image of a beautiful child who, though not photographed in life, reappeared long enough to be photographed with his bereaved father's borrowed camera. Bewitched readers will find the startling photograph of the child in the next-to-last chapter, just pages before he book's photograph of Windham's own spectral muse, Jeffrey.
This commemorative edition returns Windham's thrilling classic to its original 1982 keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.
Reviews / Votes
"In Windham's tales . . . myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook."-Paris Review
|"Almost every town has its own ghostly legends. It's separating fact from fiction and fantasy that requires someone of Mrs. Windham's expertise."
-Huntsville Times
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From Preschool to Twelfth Grade
Illustrations
49 B&W figures / 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-1912-0 (9780817319120)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
11/2016
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€20.99
Available for download
Persons
Kathryn Tucker Windham (1918-2011) was a newspaper reporter, storyteller, photographer, and the author of 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey and 13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey.
|Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Her other books include Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, and Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey.
|Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Her other books include Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, and Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey.