商品簡介
Editor Stephen Kirk presents a collection of personal narrative accounts and information from a variety of other primary sources that together tell the history of North Carolina's barrier islands from the Virginia border to Cape Lookout from sixteenth-century to the present. The editor has organized the material that makes up the main body of his text in roughly-chronological chapters devoted to Sir Walter Raleigh, Blackbeard and other pirates, making a living from the sea, the effects of hurricanes, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Stephen Kirk is an independent researcher and author living in North Carolina. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Stephen Kirk was an editor at John F. Blair, Publisher, for 27 years. He has a B.A. from St. Lawrence University and an M.F.A. from UNC-Greensboro. A story he wrote while working on his M.F.A. appeared in the Greensboro Review and was subsequently selected by John Updike for reprinting in the Best American Short Stories series. Since then, he has written First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina and Scribblers: Stalking the Authors of Appalachia. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
