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Hatteras blues : a story from the edge of America / Tom Carlson.

Carlson, Tom, 1944- (Author).

Summary:

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 sport-fishing 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807898369
ISBN: 0807898368
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover Page -- Hatteras Blues -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- CHAPTER ONE Loomings -- CHAPTER TWO These Restless Banks -- CHAPTER THREE This Working Village -- CHAPTER FOUR Charter Fishing -- CHAPTER FIVE Hatteras Inlet -- CHAPTER SIX Blowday at Cape Point -- CHAPTER SEVEN Hatteras in Winter -- CHAPTER EIGHT Portly Stripers and Eager Virgins -- CHAPTER NINE Smoker Kings and Bluefins -- CHAPTER TEN Leavetakings and Homecomings -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Net House -- CHAPTER TWELVE Family and Floating Homes. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Fate Midgett -- Bibliography.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.