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Author Simpson, Bland.

Title The inner islands : a Carolinian's sound country chronicle / Bland Simpson ; photography by Ann Cary Simpson
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Machelhe Island -- Durant Island -- Heriots Ile, Batts Grave -- The Purchace Iles -- The Curritucks -- A rose for Roanoke -- Behind Ocracoke -- To the castle -- North Core Sound -- South Core and back sounds -- The view from Bird Shoal -- The defense of Huggins Island -- Permuda Island -- Money Island -- The Cape Fears
Summary Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, this book explores the geography and biodiversity of the islands that lie in eastern North Carolina's sounds, rivers, and swamps. It examines the natural and human history of the region, and presents a reportage on territory often bypassed by tourists and scholars alike
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Islands -- North Carolina.
Islands -- North Carolina -- History
Natural history -- North Carolina
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Geography.
Islands.
Natural history.
Travel.
SUBJECT North Carolina -- History, Local
North Carolina -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092478
North Carolina -- Geography
Subject North Carolina.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Local history.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Simpson, Ann Cary.
ISBN 9780807876749
0807876747