Boats of Currituck: An Analysis of Six Watercraft from the Whalehead Trust Preservation Trust Collection
Boats of Currituck: An Analysis of Six Watercraft from the Whalehead Trust Preservation Trust Collection

Author: Nathan Richards

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1365446085

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In the fall of 2013 and the summer of 2014, graduate students from East Carolina University's Program in Maritime Students, in collaboration with the UNC-Coastal Studies Institute, carried out a project recording six watercraft from a collection of historical small watercraft collected and maintained by the Whalehead Preservation Trust in Currituck County, North Carolina. This volume contains six chapters that serve as the technical reports concerning these six vessels. Each chapter reports the process of recording the boats and their histories and also engages in interpretation and analysis of the form, function, and methods of construction. This publication intends to communicate the results of maritime-focused historic preservation activities concerning a small part of Currituck County's legacy of boat-building

North Carolina Through Four Centuries
North Carolina Through Four Centuries

Author: William S. Powell

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0807898988

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This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative that makes North Carolina history accessible to both students and general readers. For years to come, this will be the standard college text and an essential reference for home and office.

The Waterman's Song
The Waterman's Song

Author: David S. Cecelski

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780807849729

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Cecelski, "chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers."

The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860
The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860

Author: John Hope Franklin

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0807866687

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John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.

The Way We Lived in North Carolina
The Way We Lived in North Carolina

Author: Joe A. Mobley

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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Presents a comprehensive social history of North Carolina by focusing on dozens of historic sites and the lives of ordinary people who lived and worked nearby. First published in 1983 as a five-volume series, this illustrated state history is now revised and available in a single volume.

Orca
Orca

Author: Erich Hoyt

Publisher: Firefly Books

Published: 2013-11-06

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1770854126

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"Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville." (Discover Magazine) Star performers in aquariums and marine parks, killer whales were once considered to be too dangerous to approach in the wild. Erich Hoyt and his colleagues spent seven summers following these intelligent and playful creatures in the waters off northern Vancouver Island, intent on dispelling the killer myth. Orca: The Whale Called Killer is Hoyt's exciting account of those summers of adventure and discovery, and the definitive, classic work on the orca or killer whale. The Free Willy films, inspired in part by Hoyt's pioneering writing about orcas, tell the story of a captive orca being returned to the wild. (Hoyt, in fact, recommended Keiko, the orca who became the star of Free Willy, to Warner Bros.) But Orca: The Whale Called Killer tells the true story of wild orcas befriending humans.

A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War

Author: John F. Messner

Publisher: Whittles

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781849954822

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The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe The most comprehensive history of the Ad-Vance is provided, from departing Glasgow until capture off the Carolina coast