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Overview
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 In the process, more than 1,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, historical documents, and other writings were reviewed.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 |
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| 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
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
What People are Saying About This
For those who live far from the Outer Banks, but know and love it, this is just the sort of book to pull out from time to time and be transported immediately to a place within sound of the ocean's unending, rhythmic roar.—Virginian-Pilot
Gripping tales of shipwreck rescues, interesting profiles of coastal characters, and tales of the hard business of survival are all here.—Our State
The collection is perfect for anyone who loves the bleak, inspiring beauty of a barrier beach island.—Islands
[A] delightful potpourri.—Sierra
A memorable, intimate portrait of life on a fragile chain of barrier islands. . . . Visible throughout this artfully crafted anthology is editor David Stick. He has rowed out to sea, like his forebears, in a little homemade boat and has captured a beautiful literary tribute of the island ranges.—Bloomsbury Review
David Stick's new work is as welcome as it is well done. Like the good waves of summer . . . The Outer Banks Reader comes pounding in fresh, strong, a bit unpredictable, and with no shortage of salt.—Raleigh News & Observer
Delivers a superb sampler of Outer Banks history. . . . Anyone with a sincere interest in the Outer Banks will want to read this anthology and keep it in their collection as a valuable reference. The Reader will undoubtedly become a standard for professional and amateur historians alike.—North Carolina Historical Review
David Stick has more Outer Banks sand in his shoes than anyone. The North Carolina littoral is his oyster, and this collection is his gritty, exciting literary tribute to the place he knows so well and loves so much. A book as bracing as an ocean breeze.—Roy Parker Jr., contributing editor, Fayetteville Observer-Times
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