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978-0-89587-149-7
0-89587-149-1
$10.95 paperback
8" x 9"
141 pages black-and-white photographs, map
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[The Vanishing
Coast] is an intensely loving paean to a unique place and way of
life. It also issues a clear warning, one that is all the more effective
for being short on bombast and long on human interest. --Charleston (SC)
Post and Courier
Leland's book offers
a bittersweet look at traditions that are fast disappearing from
Currituck to Hilton Head. Forget the thick sun-and-sand paperback
saga--this is beach reading of a finer grain. --The News and Observer,
Raleigh, NC
This collection of
thirty-three essays describes the changing coast from Daufuskie and
Hilton Head Islands in South Carolina to the Outer Banks of North
Carolina. Leland's stories focus on communities or lifestyles endangered
by development or threatened by nature, but the real focus of the book
is the cast of characters--people like fisherman Tom Grant of
Charleston's Mosquito Fleet; clam raker Fuzzy Spivey; the Menhaden
Chanteymen, and crab picker Josephine Spencer. There is also history
(the great Charleston earthquake of 1886, the Fort Fisher hermit,
Hurricane Hugo), art (Mary Vanderhorst's baskets, Gerald Davis' decoys,
the Harkers Island boatbuilders), and natural beauty (Bald Head and
Masonboro Islands).
about the author
Elizabeth Leland, a Charleston native, has degrees from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Kent
in Canterbury, England. These articles were written while she worked for
the Charlotte Observer. In 1991, she was awarded the Ernie Pyle
Award and a Nieman Fellowship.
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