Author: Nick Santoro
Publisher: WYTC Press
ISBN: 9780692749104
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is an account of one man's attempt to escape the harried, impersonal life of a New York commuter in the hopes of finding a more fulfilling lifestyle in a tiny North Carolina coastal village. It is the story of Walter Smithwick, a man with no particular talents or skills, who survives a subway fire under the Hudson River on his way to a job he did not like, to realize that there must be a better way for him to spend the rest of his life. With no clear idea of what that better way might be, he decides to invent one.The people he meets and the experiences he encounters along the way are sure to put a smile on your face. And there just might be a life lessen in there for all of us.While the Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is a work of fiction, it really did exist...or should I say "does"?
Author: David La Vere
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men, women, and children, and took about 40 captives. So began the Tuscarora War, North Carolina's bloodiest colonial war and surely one of its most brutal. In his gripping account, David La Vere examines the war through the lens of key players in the conflict, reveals the events that led to it, and traces its far-reaching consequences. La Vere details the innovative fortifications produced by the Tuscaroras, chronicles the colony's new practice of enslaving all captives and selling them out of country, and shows how both sides drew support from forces far outside the colony's borders. In these ways and others, La Vere concludes, this merciless war pointed a new direction in the development of the future state of North Carolina.
Author: Rodney Barker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439128685
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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In this account, Rodney Barker tells the full and terrifying story of a microorganism popping up along the Eastern seaboard—far closer to home than the Ebola virus and equally frightening. In the coastal waters of North Carolina—and now extending as far north as the Chesapeake Bay area—a mysterious and deadly aquatic organism named Pfiesteria piscicida threatens to unleash an environmental nightmare and human tragedy of catastrophic proportions. At the very center of this narrative is the heroic effort of Dr. JoAnn Burkholder and her colleagues, embattled and dedicated scientists confronting medical, political, and corporate powers to understand and conquer this new scourge before it claims more victims.
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706344
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.
Author: John Dancy-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929170176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732049215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Coastal guide covers MST from Falls Lake Dam near Raleigh to Jockey's Ridge State Park.
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Janet Lembke
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781558216570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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An account of life on the banks of North Carolina's Lower Neuse River, of the people who live there, and of a way of living in step with the rhythms of the natural world that has all but disappeared today -- rhythms replete with fill nets, crab pots, fickle winds, and resourceful neighbors.
Author: Jerad Bales
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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