An Outer Banks Reader

For half a century David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. Two of his earliest <i>Graveyard of the Atlantic</i> and <i>The Outer Banks of North Carolina</i> were published by the UNC Press in the 1950s and continue to be best-sellers.<br/><p><br/>More recently Stick embarked on another project searching for the most captivating and best-written examples of what others have said about his beloved Outer Banks. In the process more than 1000 books pamphlets periodicals historical documents and other writings were reviewed.<br/><p><br/>The result is a rich and fascinating anthology. The selections in <i>An Outer Banks Reader</i> span the course of more than four and a half centuries from the first known record of a meeting between Europeans and Native Americans in the region in 1524 to modern-day accounts of life on the Outer Banks. Together Stick hopes the sixty-four entries may provide both “outlanders” and natives with an understanding of why the Outer Banks are home to a rapidly growing number of people who would rather spend the rest of their lives there than any place else on earth.