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North Carolina : land of water, land of sky / Bland Simpson ; photographs by Ann Cary Simpson, Scott Taylor, and Tom Earnhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Bland, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simpson, Bland--Travel--North Carolina.
- Simpson, Bland.
- Travel.
- North Carolina--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- North Carolina.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state's Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling and travelogue to create a portrait of the Old North State with care and humor"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. This Wet and Water-Loving Land
- Northeast, The Albemarle
- First Word
- A Sound Country Serenade
- A Feast of Brick: Elizabeth City
- Afloat
- Around the Albemarle
- Beautiful Bertie
- Changing Coasts
- Pasquotank Sunset
- Pasquotank Harvest Moon
- Island Time: outer banks, core banks, and the central coast
- Island Time
- Swimming at Dawn
- The Path to Run Hill
- Ocracoke
- Salters Creek
- Harkers Islander
- Town Creek and Bonehenge
- Sunny's Garden
- Pecans
- Rookery
- Codds Creek
- East By Southeast
- Holt's Pond
- Land of Fifty Swamps
- Holly Shelter
- Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, and the Battle of Rich Inlet
- Waccamaw
- Southport: Brunswick County
- II. Short Hills and Sand Hills
- In Battle's Woods
- Politics
- Kerr Lake
- Durham Athletic Park: Summer 1985
- A Gateless Garden
- Coon Rock Farm
- Milton
- A Gold Mine in Bingham Township
- In Austin's Quarter
- In Praise of Clay
- Redbud State of Mind
- Chicken Bridge
- Lindley Mills: Yellow Grits for Doris Betts
- Weymouth: House and Woods
- Riverside Stage: Fayetteville
- Stony Creek: Alamance County
- Trane: High Point
- Abnormal City
- Doc in Mocksville
- The Uwharries
- Mint City Reflection
- III. Jump-Up Country
- Fontana Finds a Flatlands Boy
- A Few Days at Low Gap
- High Country
- Gravity: Linville Gorge
- The French Broad Valley
- Approaching Asheville
- Dancing over the Mountains
- Highlands
- Joyce Kilmer and the Cherohala
- IV. Epilogue: A Moment on Hooper Lane
- How We See, How We Are Seen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469665832
- 1469665832
- OCLC:
- 1244883283
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