Ribbon of Sand: The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean and the Outer Banks - Hardcover

Alexander, John; Lazell, James D

 
9780945575320: Ribbon of Sand: The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean and the Outer Banks
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0945575327 ISBN 13: 9780945575320
Verlag: Workman Publishing, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Wind, currents, tides, and sand. Kingsnakes and rice rats. The disappearance of the Lost Colony, the raids of the pirate Blackbeard, and the Wright brothers' first attempts at flight. The Outer Banks is a place like no other.

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Reseña del editor

The authors examine the lessons that North Carolina's Outer Banks have to teach anyone seeking to understand the natural and human dynamics of America's threatened barrier islands. Only in recent years have scientists begun to understand how the Banks were formed and how they continue to be shaped by an unusual confluence of ocean currents, wave action, winds, and sand. 27 maps and illustrations.

Reseña del editor

There is nowhere on earth quite like the delicate, embattled place called the Outer Banks. With a scientist's eye for the hidden complexities of the natural world and a historian's knowledge of how human undertakings shape -- and are shaped by -- that world, the authors explore the dynamics of America's threatened barrier islands.

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Verlag
Workman Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0945575327
ISBN 13 
9780945575320
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
238
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