The Inner Islands
A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle
Bland Simpson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2007
Pages: 232
Subject: Travel, Nature, Biography and Autobiography
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807876749
DESCRIPTION
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel
narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the
sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each
of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island
or group of islands, many of which, were it not for the buffering
Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows of the Atlantic.
Instead they are home to unique plant and animal species and
well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an
earlier human history.