A Historian's Coast : Adventures into the Tidewater Past

A Historian's Coast : Adventures into the Tidewater Past by Cecelski, David. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780895871893.

This historical and ecological look into North Carolinas coastal past is the result of both scholarly work and the authors personal curiosity of his homeland. During his work as an historian, he stumbled across several never published accounts of life on the barrier islands of the Atlantic, including the memoir of Allen Parker, who grew up as a slave in tidewater North Carolina. In 22 personal, informative and well-illustrated essays originally published in Coastwatch magazine, the author shares what he found in the lost documents, and thoughts on what he has discovered exploring this same coastline today. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)