The Nature of the Outer Banks
Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke
Second Edition
By Dirk Frankenberg
With a new foreword by Betsy Bennett
176 pp., 6 x 7.5, 30 drawings, 20 halftones, 7 maps, 4 tables
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-7234-5
Published: March 2012 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-7237-6
Published: March 2012 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4341-8
Published: March 2012
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In the first section of the book, Dirk Frankenberg highlights three major processes on the Outer Banks: the rising sea level, movement of sand by wind and water, and stabilization of sand by plant life. In the second section, he provides a mile-by-mile field guide to the northern Banks, and in the final section, he alerts readers to the dangers of overdevelopment on the Outer Banks. In a new foreword for this edition, Betsy Bennett documents the ever-more-critical situation of these shifting sands.
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About the Authors
Dirk Frankenberg (1937-2000) was professor of marine sciences and director of the Marine Sciences Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of several North Carolina nature guides.
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Betsy Bennett is director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Reviews
"For the traveler looking for places to hike, paddle or drive amid some of the coast's lesser-known scenic sights. In addition to directions, the books equip readers with a lesson in natural history and some trail-guide-type details designed to help them appreciate the nature of nature."—News & Observer
"Takes you away from the man-made intrusions. . . . to those truly enchanted places . . . where the Outer Banks remain in their natural splendor."--Roy Parker Jr., Fayetteville Observer-Times