Outer Banks Tales to Remember
Title | Outer Banks Tales to Remember PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Harry Whedbee |
Publisher | Blair |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780895870445 |
Stories about Indians, trappers, ghosts, firebirds, sea horses, and sand dollars in this collection of tales from coastal NC.
The Sense of an Ending
Title | The Sense of an Ending PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Barnes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307957330 |
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore
Title | Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Harry Whedbee |
Publisher | Blair |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780895872951 |
From the late author of "Legends of the Outer Banks" and "The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke and Other Tales of the Outer Banks" comes a collection of legends from the broad bays, sounds, and estuaries that make up tidewater Tarheelia.
Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater
Title | Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Harry Whedbee |
Publisher | Blair |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Legends of Virginia Dare, Theodosia Burr, Blackbeard, and the witch of Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Lost Restaurants of the Outer Banks and Their Recipes
Title | Lost Restaurants of the Outer Banks and Their Recipes PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Pollard Gaw |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467140813 |
Anyone who has lived or vacationed on the Outer Banks has an old favorite restaurant. Hundreds have opened over many decades and then closed thanks to changing tastes and the vagaries of a seasonal business. Manteo locals loved Miss Esther's, and midcentury visitors came to stay at the Sea Ranch and sample Alice Sykes's famed crab bisque. Residents will remember quirky favorites like the Pit and Papagayo's. the Seafare, The Oasis and Kelly's were beloved by generations of families. Join Amy Pollard Gaw as she tells tales and presents classic recipes from gone but not forgotten spots.
The Watery Part of the World
Title | The Watery Part of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Parker |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616200561 |
Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.
Sand
Title | Sand PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Welland |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2009-01-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520942000 |
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science—sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration—and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers, and even a vampire, the story of sand is an epic of environmental construction and destruction, an adventure in staggering scales of time and distance, yet a tale that encompasses the ordinary and everyday. Sand, in fact, is all around us—it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand.