Islands at the Edge of Time
Material type: TextPublication details: Island PressDescription: 240 pagesISBN:- 9781559632515
- 917.3049291
- F216.2
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Book | Lake Chapala Society | 917.3 HANS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 37699 |
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917.3 BROM America The Beautiful | 917.3 BRYS The Lost Continent | 917.3 GROE Great Eastern RV Trips | 917.3 HANS Islands at the Edge of Time | 917.3 HEAT River-Horse | 917.30 HEAT Blue Highways | 917.30 KURA A Life on The Road |
Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
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