The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle

by Bland Simpson, Ann Cary Simpson, Ann Simpson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807830569
• ISBN13: 9780807830567
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"