An Outer Banks Reader
Edited by David Stick
336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 map, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4726-8
Published: June 1998 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2154-8
Published: July 2014 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6867-1
Published: July 2014
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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 In the process, more than 1,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, historical documents, and other writings were reviewed.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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David Stick, author of numerous books about coastal North Carolina, lives on the Outer Banks.
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"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
"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
"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
"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
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