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Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian's Eastern Streams
Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region's geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson tell the stories of those who have lived and worked in this country, chronicling both a distinct environment and a way of life. Whether rhapsodizing about learning to sail on the Pasquotank River or eating oysters on Ocracoke, he introduces readers to the people and communities along the watery web of myriad "little rivers" that define North Carolina's sound country as it meets the Atlantic.
With nearly sixty of Ann Simpson's photographs, Little Rivers joins the Simpsons' two previous works, Into the Sound Country and The Inner Islands, in offering a rich narrative and visual document of eastern North Carolina's particular beauty. Urging readers to take note of the poetry in "every rivulet and rill, every creek, crick, branch, run, stream, prong, fork, river, pocosin, swamp, basin, estuary, cove, bay, and sound," the Simpsons show how the coastal plain's river systems are in many ways the region's heart and soul.
With nearly sixty of Ann Simpson's photographs, Little Rivers joins the Simpsons' two previous works, Into the Sound Country and The Inner Islands, in offering a rich narrative and visual document of eastern North Carolina's particular beauty. Urging readers to take note of the poetry in "every rivulet and rill, every creek, crick, branch, run, stream, prong, fork, river, pocosin, swamp, basin, estuary, cove, bay, and sound," the Simpsons show how the coastal plain's river systems are in many ways the region's heart and soul.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Sep 28th, 2015
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 10.10in - 7.20in - 0.70in - 1.70lb
- EAN: 9781469624938
- Categories: • Essays & Travelogues• United States - South - South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD,• Ecosystems & Habitats - Rivers
About the Author
Simpson, Bland: - Bland Simpson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and pianist for the Red Clay Ramblers.
Simpson, Ann Cary: - Photographer Ann Cary Simpson is a consultant with Moss + Ross of Durham and interim director of NC Catch, a nonprofit supporting fishermen and local seafood.
Praise for this book
Simpson has given us a travelogue, a memoir, a history lesson and a call to conservation that will leave you wanting to see what he has seen, taste the same fresh catch, meet the people and live a life that lets you idle your days away on water"--News & Observer
Combines Bland's lyrical and fact-filled narrative with Ann's stunning photography to show us the underappreciated beauty and rich heritage of our state's waterways."--Charlotte Observer
Little Rivers and Waterway Tales will find a place on a lot of Tar Heel coffee tables . . . It's a lovely volume, not to be missed."--Wilmington Star-News