The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionStanding along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wil...

Reducere. The Outer Banks National Scenic Byway received its designation in 2009, an act that stands as a testament to the historical and cultural importance...

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander and Lazell's delightful study of North Carolina's Outer Banks contains a wealth of statistics and facts . . . A Ribbon of Sand...

Reducere. On an island there is nowhere to hide. That's why these ghost stories scare and delight us so much. The Outer Banks is full of life and death tales...

Reducere. As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the island's vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer ...

Reducere. Presents the graphic and sad story of the British anti-submarine trawler Bedfordshire and the German submarine U-558. Off Cape Lookout on a fateful...

Reducere. The rich history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways. A book over twenty yea...

DescriptionSalty air and the promise of adventure: answer the call of the ocean with Moon North Carolina Coast. Inside you'll find: Strategic itine...

Reducere. North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes ...

Reducere. In this hands-on, how-to guide to fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, expert fisherman Stan Ulanski combines his enthusiasm, his experience, and ...

Reducere. More than seven million people visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina every year, and they all fall in love with its coastal Southern cuisine. The...

Reducere. The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost--unt...

Reducere. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban ...

Reducere. There is quite possibly only one place where not only can a person see wild horses on the beach, one can share a home with them. The Northern Outer...

Reducere. As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl's life. In 1868, on th...

Reducere. In the mid-1800s, wealthy farmers and businessmen began bringing their families to North Carolina's Outer Banks to escape the blistering inland sum...

Reducere. She was the spirited daughter of a North Carolina plantation owner, and he was a poor fisherman who she tutored on the porch of her family's Nags H...

Reducere. The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost--unt...

Reducere. "The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay." (Traditions of Devonshire, Nursery Rhyme, 1883) He brooked no in...

Fishing on the Outer Banks for subsistence began over 1, 000 years ago with the Algonquin Indians, who made their summer camps on the islands. They...

Reducere. DescriptionFishing on the Outer Banks for subsistence began over 1, 000 years ago with the Algonquin Indians, who made their summer camps on the is...

Reducere. Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks share an incredibly rich surfing history. Virginia Beach is home to major surfing institutions so iconic and lon...

Reducere. DescriptionAnyone who has lived or vacationed on the Outer Banks has an old favorite restaurant. Hundreds have opened over many decades and then cl...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Outer Banks has a long history of unconventional characters and curious occurrences. Did you know that escapees from an escargot far...

This guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading liter...

Reducere. This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy mee...

Reducere. Telling the stories of twelve North Carolina heritage foods, each matched to the month of its peak readiness for eating, Georgann Eubanks takes rea...

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

Reducere. Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the region that str...

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Reducere. Originally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out...

Reducere. Recounts events leading to the establishment of twenty-nine lifesaving stations along North Carolina's treacherous coastline and the role of their ...

Reducere. Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life fo...

Reducere. From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. Germ...

Reducere. The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando M...

Reducere. Painfully remote in the time of the Wright brothers, today the Outer Banks famously welcomes millions of visitors each year. The journey from early...

Reducere. Hugh Morton has had a long and active public life as an environmentalist, developer, and promoter of tourism. His favorite role, however, is that o...