Inner Islands : A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle.

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, wer...

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Author / Creator: Simpson, Bland.
Other Authors / Creators:Simpson, Ann Cary.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Prelude
  • Machelhe Island
  • Durant Island
  • Heriots Ile, Batts Grave
  • The Purchace Iles
  • The Curritucks
  • A Rose for Roanoke
  • Behind Ocracoke
  • To the Castle
  • North Core Sound
  • South Core and Back Sounds
  • The View from Bird Shoal
  • The Defense of Huggins Island
  • Permuda Island
  • Money Island
  • The Cape Fears
  • Coda
  • Selected Inner Islands Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Maps
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.