1 3. Janet Lembke. River Time: The 

 Frontier on the Lower Neuse. Lyons 

 and Burford, 1989. 



14 . Ben Dixon MacNeill. The 

 Hatter asman. John F. Blair, 1958. 



Despite his background in jour- 

 nalism, MacNeill seemed to work best 

 in the disputed territory between 

 fiction and nonfiction. Although he 

 seldom let a mere fact stand in the 

 way of a good yarn, The Hatterasman 

 won the Mayflower Award, usually 

 reserved for works of nonfiction. 



1 5. Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., William J. 

 Neal and Orrin H. Pilkey Sr. From 

 Currituck to Calabash: Living with 

 North Carolina's Barrier Islands. 

 N.C. Science and Technology Re- 

 search Center, 1978. 



A wake-up call that many public 

 officials and private citizens have yet 

 to heed and a precursor to The 

 Beaches are Moving (Doubleday, 

 1979), which treats the entire coastal 

 zone of the United States. 



1 B. David B. Quinn, ed. The 

 Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590. For the 

 Hakluyt Society, 1955. 



This two-volume documentary 

 history of the Raleigh colonies is 

 thicker and harder to acquire than a 

 good Sumerian dictionary, but is 

 indispensable to the serious student. 

 Elevated diction, dense annotation 

 and vast tracts of unaltered 16th- 

 century spelling make for poor 

 recreational reading. But The 

 Roanoke Voyages nearly exhausts 

 contemporary English and Spanish 

 sources of information about the 

 Raleigh colonies, including many 

 absent from Hakluyt' s Principal 

 Navigations. Its appendices on the 



Carolina Algonkian language and 

 other topics are still helpful after four 

 decades. Virginia Voyages from 

 Hakluyt (Oxford University Press, 

 1973) is in essence an abridgment, 

 which the N.C. Division of Archives 

 and History reissued in 1982 as The 

 First Colonists. 



17 . William L. Saunders, ed. The 

 Colonial Records of North Carolina. 

 Vol. 1, 1622-1712. P.M. Hale, 1886. 



This book includes a 1653 visit to 

 the ruined Roanoke settlement, the 

 Carolina Charters, the settlement of 

 the Cape Fear by Barbadians and the 

 Tuscaroran Wars. There's hardly an 

 irrelevant entry, because the earliest 

 history of North Carolina is necessar- 

 ily coastal history. 



1 8 . Gregory Seaworthy [George 

 Higby Throop]. Nag's Head: Or, Two 

 Months among "the Bankers." A. 

 Hart, 1850. 



The Albemarle rich who sum- 

 mered in antebellum Nags Head to 

 escape the malaria, yellow fever and 

 tedium of the mainland were unusual 

 people, at once cosmopolitan and 

 provincial. They brought their live- 

 stock, servants, ministers, relatives 

 and neighbors. They had necessities 

 and luxuries shipped in and lived 

 separately from the local people. 

 When they returned to the mainland, 

 they took everything but their empty 

 cottages. Nag's Head, the second 

 novel set on the Outer Banks, treats 

 the lives of these mainlanders and 

 their view of the area. Richard 

 Walser' s facsimile edition, Nag's 

 Head and Bertie, Two Novels by 

 George Higby Throop (Heritage 

 House, 1958), albeit long out of 

 print, is much more common than 

 the original. 



1 9. Judith M. Spitsbergen. Seacoast 

 Life: An Ecological Guide to Natural 

 Seashore Communities in North Caro- 

 lina. UNC Press for the N.C. State 

 Museum of Natural History, 1980. 



20 . James Sprunt. Chronicles of the 

 Cape Fear River, 1660-1916, 2nd ed. 

 Edwards and Broughton, 1914, 1916. 



This expansive hodgepodge com- 

 prises, among other things, bits of 

 verse, letters from Daniel Webster and 

 Jefferson Davis, and a summary of 

 improvements to navigation. 



2 1. David Stick. The Outer Banks of 

 North Carolina, 1584-1958. UNC 

 Press, 1958. 



A rare book — a local history 

 sound enough to serve as a reference 

 work and engaging enough to maintain 

 the interest of the general reader. 



22 . David Stick. Graveyard of the 

 Atlantic. UNC Press, 1952. 



As painstakingly researched as 

 this author's history of the Outer 

 Banks, this book offers stronger narra- 

 tive threads. 



. Charles Harry Whedbee. Legends 

 of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel 

 Tidewater. John F. Blair, 1966. 



This was Whedbee' s first pub- 

 lished collection of tales — most of 

 them based on folklore, a few entirely 

 synthetic. It's the quintessential beach 

 book: entertaining, but not oppres- 

 sively educational. 



24 . Tony P. Wrenn. Wilmington, 

 North Carolina: An Architectural and 

 Historical Portrait. University Press of 

 Virginia, 1984. □ 



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