From Currituck to Calabash: Living With North Carolina's Barrier Islands

by Orrin H. Pilkey

Book by Pilkey, Orrin H.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Orrin Hendren Pilkey Jr. was an American marine geologist who was Professor Emeritus of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, at Duke University, and founder and director emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) based at Western Carolina University.

Reviews

[Tuck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Numerous detailed.maps, pictures, and line drawings, 4 appendix, one of which is a tour guide mile by mile of islands, looking at land forms and storm damages and features to illustrate features of book. Features being islands migrate west as sea level rises.
A classic.