Into the sound country
Subtitle: a Carolinian's coastal plain
By: Bland Simpson ; photography by Ann Cary Simpson.
Contributors: Simpson, Ann Cary.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Simpson, Bland.; Simpson family.; Albemarle Sound (N.C.) -- Tours.; Beaufort Region (N.C.) -- Tours.; Albemarle Sound (N.C.) -- History.; Beaufort Region (N.C.) -- History.; Albemarle Sound (N.C.) -- Biography.; Beaufort Region (N.C.) -- Biography.
Description: Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery - of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson.

Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards.

A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-255) and index.