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  • The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes

    Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia

    by David J. Mason ...
    The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes is a trilogy that profiles Private Parson Sykes' evolution from enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, followed by his enlistment into the Union Army, and culminating with his emancipation and return to the county. The first novel in the trilogy, subtitled Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, takes place in 1864 near the end of the American Civil ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes

    Enlistment in the Union Army

    by David J Mason ...
    The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enlistment in the Union Army by David J. Mason is a riveting historical fiction novel that places its protagonist at the heart of the Civil War's most challenging and transformative moments. At only seventeen, Parson Sykes is an African-American youth navigating from the oppressive "contraband of war" status to becoming a soldier in the United States Colored ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes, Novella

    by David J Mason ...
    Series series Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes Trilogy
    The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes, A Novella, chronicles the true story of an enslaved man's journey to freedom during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1864, in Southampton County, Virginia, Parson Sykes, enslaved on Jacob Williams' farm, secretly educates himself by salvaging newspapers from Boykins Depot. This forbidden knowledge fuels his desire for liberation, a resolve hardened ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, 2nd Edition : Enslavement in Southampton County , 2nd Edition.

    Enslavement in Southampton County

    by David J Mason ...
    Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, the first installment of the trilogy, takes place in 1864, near the end of the American Civil War, on the slave-holding Jacob Williams' middle-class family farm. During the Southampton Insurrection, the farm came under attack by Nat Turner and his insurgents, an event that haunts Jacob. Before the Civil War began, Parson started discussing human rights ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Return to Southampton County: Return to Southampton County

    Return to Southampton County

    by David J. Mason ...
    In the Return to Southampton County, the story ends with Parson accomplishing his mission and achieving his goal. Parson Sykes will buy property to farm and live by the principles he postulated: that all members of a society have equal standing in terms of political power and influence; you judge people based on their merits as opposed to their identity, such as race, gender and age; you allow for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • News from The Village

    Aegean Friends

    by David Mason ...
    A memoir of friendship, history, and longing in a Greek village that "introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites" (A.E. Stallings, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist).In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece. Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Fire

    Poems

    by David Mason ...
    FORMER COLORADO POET LAUREATEFrom the volcanic landscapes of the Pacific Rim to the mythic echoes of Greece and India, Cold Fire is a radiant meditation on memory, nature, and the enduring sparks of love and creation.David Mason’s poetry circles the globe. The urgent and beautiful poems of his new book, Cold Fire, have settings in Australia, India, Greece, Turkey and the American West. A t... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Wild West

    by David Mason ...
    An American President anxious about his re-election needs publicity. An American Indian Tribe is found who have not signed a treaty with the Government. He can't travel to the other side of the country; the Army won't help,he promotes a Midshipman to form an escort of Sailors, led by a clerk from the Dept., for Indian affairs who turns out to be the Widow of an Army Colonel......a tough cookie. A ... Read more

    $5.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thalidomide

    My Fight

    by David Mason ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In the late 1950s and early 1960s the drug Thalidomide (marketed in the UK by Distillers Company without sufficient testing) was a sedative and medication prescribed for morning sickness. The Thalidomide tragedy is the story of one of the worst disasters ever inflicted by medicine which led to thousands of babies worldwide being born with a range of birth defects.‘The ugly story of a good fight ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Revolution And Transition In East-central Europe

    Second Edition

    by David Mason ...
    Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian crisis all color the transition from communism to democracy and from a Cold War outlook to a new global order still taking shape.In this fully revised and updated edition of his popular and critically ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes, A Novella

    by David J Mason ...
    Series series The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes
    The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes, A Novella, chronicles the true story of an enslaved man’s journey to freedom during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1864, in Southampton County, Virginia, Parson Sykes, enslaved on Jacob Williams’ farm, secretly educates himself by salvaging newspapers from Boykins Depot. This forbidden knowledge fuels his desire for liberation, a resolve hardened ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marching with the Devil

    Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion

    by David Mason ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    ‘Since its creation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become the stuff of myth, fiction and dreams... Anyone thinking of joining up would be well advised to read this book first’ - The Sun HeraldA real-life boy's own adventure, Marching With The Devil is an account of David Mason's five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion.David Mason graduated from the Australian National University ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $5.99 USD