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978-0-9791403-4-1
0-9791403-4-X
$18.95 paperback
6 x 9
304 pages
29 line drawings by Claude Howell
The Publishing Laboratory of UNC Wilmington
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When The Publishing Laboratory established its "Lives in Place" series, featuring titles of literary and cultural significance to its region, bringing Ben Dixon MacNeill's classic memoir of North Carolina's Outer Banks back into print was a perfect first selection. Fifty years after its original hardcover publication by then newcomer John F. Blair, Publisher, The Hatterasman had become something of a rarity on Southern bookshelves. The 50th-anniversary edition features a new introduction by author Philip Gerard (Cape Fear Rising) and a biographical essay by Barbara Brannon.
Winner of the 1958 Mayflower Award, The Hatterasman is part nature story, part historical narrative, part adventure story, and part rhetorical farce. "The language of the book is oddly timeless -- archaic and colloquial at the same time, a chronicle of nested stories you might hear from a salty old-timer at the bait shack," writes Gerard in his introduction. "They hold the appeal of both history and myth -- the larger shape of our beliefs personified in distinctive, sometimes heroic characters, from explorers like Amerigo Vespucci to surfmen like Rasmus Midgett."
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