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Carolina Flair; Outer
Banks Boatbuilding and Sportfishing Heritage, Neal
Conoley, $60.00, hard "Neal
Conoley’s book on NC boatbuilding/sportfishing is a hardcover,
photo-filled book with images of all the beautiful boats, boatyards,
boatbuilders, harbors and communities of Down East, Wanchese, and
all up and down the Banks. Folks like Brady Lewis and Mr. Julian
... Claude Brown, Woo Woo Harker, Capt. Stacy fleet, Pappy Joe Fulcher,
the MHC waterfront, the Willis Boatworks of Marshallberg ... a wonderful
tribute to this boatbuilding heritage." kwa |
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Hatteras Blues; A Story
from the Edge of America, Tom Carlson, The
University of North Carolina Press, 233 pgs, $27.50, hard
"Carlson's first-person narriative about the
sportfishing trade and its relationship with the commercial fishing
operations at Hatteras Island focuses closely on a relatively small
group of people in the village who we get to know quite well and,
int he process, some to care for and admire. All sorts of folks
will be drawn to this book, some for its close-in look at fishing,
others for its fond, visid portraiture of the last of the real salts."
Bland Simpson, author of Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery
of the Carroll A. Deering |
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The Fish Factory –
Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen of the American Menhaden
Industry, Barbara J. Garrity-Blake, The University
of Tennessee Press, 160 pgs, $17.95, paper Told
with an eye to the past, this story of the Menhaden Fishing Industry
is born of the crux that is the current turmoil between yesterday
and today, working and recreational endeavors, and how it was to
how it is becoming. See if your way of looking isn’t changed
when you are allowed to see through the eyes of those that lived
this way of life.
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Life at the Edge of
the Sea; Essays on North Carolina's Coast and Coastal Culture,
edited by Candy Beal and Carmine Prioli, Coastal
Carolina Press, 145 pgs, $16.95, paper
Coastal North Carolina is home to a complex and
vibrant ecosystem, a diverse population, and a rich culture all
its own. For years, self-reliant natives existed in harmony with
their environment. But then, thousands of visitors discovered coastal
North Carolina and suddenly everything started to change. Inspired
by the Southern Coastal Heritage Workshop for Educators, the authors
hope to help keep alive the spirit of our shores. |
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A Historian's Coast:
Adventures into the Tidewater Past, David
Cecelski, John F. Blair, Publisher, 184 pgs, paper, $16.95
"Illuminating, entertaining, and essential!
David Cecelski's work is a historical aid-to-navigation, a collection
of literary beacons from Knotts Island to Navassa. Cecelski presents
us with the last daughter of Davis Ridge (located adjacent to Davis),
the rapacious turpentiners of the Rich Lands, and the intrepid boatman
in his paper canoe, and lights our way through the trickiest currents
and riptides of North Carolina's coastal past."
— Bland Simpson, author of Into the Sound Country and The
Great Dismal Swamp |
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Duck: An Outer Banks Village,
Judith D. Mercer, John F. Blair Publisher, 259 pgs, hard, OUT OF STOCK
Levin Scarborough took up whittling a quarter-century
ago - "when I was still young," he says. A distraction, something
to pass the time, carving kept Levin's hands busy after a heart
attack forced the rest of him to slow down. He was sixty-nine. Within
a year, he had produced a handsome collection of hand-crafted waterfowl,
mastering just about every species of duck. "I guess," Levin once
told a reporter, "people just like to say they got a duck in Duck.
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Coastal Waters: Images
of North Carolina, Scott Taylor, Coastal
Carolina Press, 96 pgs, hard, $25.95
The images chosen for this book were captured over
the last two decades in and around Core Sound, Cape Lookout, Swansboro,
Beaufort, Shackleford Banks, Ocracoke, Cedar Island and Portsmouth.
Come along as we explore the lesser-known southern Outer Banks of
our beautiful Carolina shoreline. |
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The Vanishing Coast,
Elizabeth Leland, John F Blair Publisher, 141 pgs,
paper, $10.95
The Vanishing Coast is an intensely loving
paean to a unique place and way of life. It also issued a clear
warning, one that is all the more effective for being short on bombast
and long on human interest. |
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The Carolina Watermen:
Bug Hunters and Boatbuilders, Richard Kelly
and Barbara Kelly, John F Blair Publisher, 182 pgs, paper, $14.95
The Kelly's did not want to let the way of life
of the Carolina watermen to go unchronicled. This is their tribute
to a hard-working people they have come to admire. |
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Into the Sound Country:
A Carolinian's Coastal Plain, Bland Simpson;
photography by Ann Cary Simpson, University of North Carolina Press,
269 pgs, paper, $19.95
"An artfully illustrated love story about the tidal
pull of a home place, told with passion and grace.It has a satisfying
feel - like marsh mud between the toes, like the sound of familiar
voices on the porch telling old-time stories as twilight."
— Philip Gerard, author of Cape Fear Rising |
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