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Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America
Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Today, Ernal's son, Captain Ernie Foster, struggles to keep the family business alive in a time of great change on the Banks. Within the engaging saga of the rise and decline of one family's livelihood, Carlson relates the history and transformation of Hatteras Village and the high-adrenaline experience of blue-water sportfishing and the industry that surrounds it. Hatteras Blues is their story--a story of triumph and loss, of sturdy Calvinist values and pell-mell American progress, and of fate and luck as capricious as the weather.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2010
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.24in - 6.36in - 0.63in - 0.82lb
- EAN: 9780807871225
- Categories: • Fishing• United States - South - South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD,• Personal Memoirs
About the Author
Carlson, Tom: - Tom Carlson taught creative nonfiction and American literature for thirty-two years at the University of Memphis.
Praise for this book
To say Hatteras Blues is just a fish story would be akin to claiming that The Old Man and the Sea is about a boat ride in the Gulf Stream.--Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Poignant. . . . Carlson manages to capture quite well the life and times and independent spirit of the Hatteras watermen and their threatened existence.--Island Breeze
Does this great sport fishery justice. If you love the Banks--the real Banks from Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke--you will love this book.--Gray's Sporting Journal
Beautifully written. . . . Readers [of Hatteras Blues] will be glad Carlson chose to tell this tale of the blues, what some call progress, and how and why we should all continue living life on the edge.--Our State
Carlson is here to deliver some lessons: a lesson in ecology, when he describes the physics of the Outer Banks and the sensitive, sometimes violent, relation between sand and sea; a lesson in history, when he recalls the Outer Banks' inhabitants, from Native Americans to European explorers to the latest settlers, commercial developers; and a lesson in fishing, when he vividly describes all manner of prize fish and all manner of hooking them.--Memphis
You don't have to be a sportfisherman to appreciate the book's honesty and insight.--Memphis Flyer
Not just about the rise and decline of traditional sportfishing, screaming Penn reels, leaping wahoo and tail-walking marlin, Hatteras Blues should appeal widely for its social, economic and natural history of a place, and for its dramatic human stories. . . . [A] handsomely made and compellingly written book. . . . Hatteras Blues is a hybrid work of art that alternately reads like history, personal essay or Walden, and is at its best a meditation on fishing the self and the world to find meaning amid flux. The book is not plotted but takes us through moments of wonder and sorrow, fear and comedy, to a triumph of the human spirit.--Raleigh News & Observer
What began as the story of a family business turned into a look at a disappearing way of life.--News & Observer
[Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America] weaves together information about the history of the Outer Banks and the fishing there as well as such related topics as geology, hurricanes, lifesaving, and lighthouses. [Carlson] focuses on the Fosters of the village of Hatteras, whose patriarch, Ernal, introduced many of the inventions and innovations that make the Outer Banks a popular fishing destination. His sketches of the Fosters and others capture the wit, character, and bravery of Hatteras people in a manner that is intimate and insightful without being intrusive.--Booklist
Should appeal to folks who've struggled with the loss of a loved one. It should also appeal to folks who see their way of life ending, whether they're farmers or factory workers. And it should appeal to anyone who realizes just how cool the Outer Banks and its people are. . . . Carlson does an admirable job of preserving a good bit more of the Hatteras character. And of telling us something about fishing--and loss.--Winston-Salem Journal