An Outer Banks Reader
For half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. Two of his earliest, Graveyard of the Atlantic and The Outer Banks of North Carolina, were published by the UNC Press in the 1950s, and continue to be best-sellers.


More recently, Stick embarked on another project, searching for the most captivating and best-written examples of what others have said about his beloved Outer Banks. In the process, more than 1,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, historical documents, and other writings were reviewed.


The result is a rich and fascinating anthology. The selections in An Outer Banks Reader span the course of more than four and a half centuries, from the first known record of a meeting between Europeans and Native Americans in the region in 1524 to modern-day accounts of life on the Outer Banks. Together, Stick hopes, the sixty-four entries may provide both “outlanders” and natives with an understanding of why the Outer Banks are home to a rapidly growing number of people who would rather spend the rest of their lives there than any place else on earth.

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An Outer Banks Reader
For half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. Two of his earliest, Graveyard of the Atlantic and The Outer Banks of North Carolina, were published by the UNC Press in the 1950s, and continue to be best-sellers.


More recently, Stick embarked on another project, searching for the most captivating and best-written examples of what others have said about his beloved Outer Banks. In the process, more than 1,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, historical documents, and other writings were reviewed.


The result is a rich and fascinating anthology. The selections in An Outer Banks Reader span the course of more than four and a half centuries, from the first known record of a meeting between Europeans and Native Americans in the region in 1524 to modern-day accounts of life on the Outer Banks. Together, Stick hopes, the sixty-four entries may provide both “outlanders” and natives with an understanding of why the Outer Banks are home to a rapidly growing number of people who would rather spend the rest of their lives there than any place else on earth.

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For half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. Two of his earliest, Graveyard of the Atlantic and The Outer Banks of North Carolina, were published by the UNC Press in the 1950s, and continue to be best-sellers.


More recently, Stick embarked on another project, searching for the most captivating and best-written examples of what others have said about his beloved Outer Banks. In the process, more than 1,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, historical documents, and other writings were reviewed.


The result is a rich and fascinating anthology. The selections in An Outer Banks Reader span the course of more than four and a half centuries, from the first known record of a meeting between Europeans and Native Americans in the region in 1524 to modern-day accounts of life on the Outer Banks. Together, Stick hopes, the sixty-four entries may provide both “outlanders” and natives with an understanding of why the Outer Banks are home to a rapidly growing number of people who would rather spend the rest of their lives there than any place else on earth.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807847268
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 06/01/1998
Edition description: 1
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

David Stick, author of numerous books about coastal North Carolina, lives on the Outer Banks.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction
1. First Impressions Contact / Giovanni da Verrazzano Traffic with the Savages / Arthur Barlowe The Dividing Line / William Byrd Antebellum Nags Head / Gregory Seaworthy (George Higby Throop)
Three Weddings at Hunting Quarters / Nathaniel H. Bishop A Visit to Ocracoke / Carl Goerch

2. The Natural Environment Native Agriculture / Thomas Harriot Market Gunning / H. H. Brimley The Hungry Horde / Jack Dermid Creatures of the Shoals / Rachel Carson A History of Blues / Joel Arrington

3. Man versus Nature The Opening of Oregon and Hatteras Inlets / William L. Welch / C. O. Boutelle The Worst Light in the World / David D. Porter The Sand Wave / John R. Spears Project Nutmeg / Captain Howard B. Hutchinson, USN Man's Impact on the Barrier Islands of North Carolina / Robert Dolan, Paul J. Godfrey, and William E. Odum Saving Nags Head Woods / Michael Godfrey Cape Lookout National Seashore: A Return to the Wild / Michael E. C. Gery

4. Ships and the Sea Shipwreck off Hatteras / Sarah Kollock Harris The Foundering of the USS Monitor / William Frederick Keeler The Wreck of the USS Huron / Joe A. Mobley The Wreck of the Bark Josie Troop / Anonymous Wreck of the Schooner Sarah D. J. Rawson / Anonymous The Ghost Ship Mystery of Diamond Shoals / John Harden When the Ship Hit the Span / John Alexander and James Lazell The Pea Island Lifesavers / David Wright and David Zoby

5. War on the Banks Of Captain Teach Alias Blackbeard / Captain Charles Johnson (Daniel Defoe)
The Rendezvous at Hatteras / William Morrison Robinson Jr.
Lincoln Hears the News / Carl Sandburg The Chicamacomico Races / Evert A. Duyckinck The Battle of Roanoke Island / George Washington Whitman The Mirlo Rescue / John Allen Midgett I Wore a Dead Man's Hand / Aycock Brown and Ken Jones

6. Making a Living The Petition of Legal Pilots of Ocracoke Bar / John Williams et al.
The Wild Horses, Their Qualities and Habits / Edmund Ruffin The Last Whale Killed along These Shores / Grayden Paul and Mary C. Paul Yaupon Factory / H. H. Brimley A Record Catch / Old Trudge (Carl Goerch)
Pumping and Grinding / Tucker Littleton Sharpies, Shad Boats, and Spritsail Skiffs / Mark Taylor Bread-and-Butter Fishing / Jan DeBlieu

7. Ones of a Kind Stanley Wahab, Tar Heel of the Week / Woodrow Price The Mighty Midgetts of Hatteras / Don Wharton Cap'n Ban and the Infernal Engine / Ben Dixon MacNeill Old Quork / Charles Harry Whedbee Les and Sally Moore, Pioneers / Jerry Bledsoe Ad Man, Con Man, Photographer, and Legend / Vera A. Evans A Time to Reap / William Ruehlmann The Last of the Currituck Beach Cowboys / Lorraine Eaton The Crab Picker / Elizabeth Leland

8. Visitors Leave Their Footprints The Governor Returns / John White Gray-Eyed Indians / John Lawson The Nag's Head Picture of Theodosia Burr / Bettie Freshwater Pool Our Winds Are Always Steady / Joseph J. Dosher, William J. Tate, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright The Campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos The Forgotten Pioneer / Patrick K. Lackey Foreword to the Lost Colony / Paul Green

9. Lifestyles America's First Science Center / Ivor Noël Hume The Contraband Colony / Horace James The Eye of the Tempest / Joel G. Hancock Wild Goose Chase / Rex Beach Bring Back the Old Deestric' Skule! / Victor Meekins Hatteras Highway / Bill Sharpe Old Christmas / Jan DeBlieu

Sources Index

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From the Publisher

“David Stick’s first-rate book is a most instructive and very readable addition to the literature of the Barrier Islands. It is an essential volume to every shelf of North Carolina history. I found the happenings and characters so interesting I couldn’t stop reading.” — William Friday

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