Hatteras Journal

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Description

In 1985 Jan DeBlieu moved to Hatteras Island and took up place of abode in the old home of some of the Outer Banks’ most historic families. For more than a year she explored the island’s dunes, marshes, waters, and towns to study its complex natural cycles, its fragile ecosystem, its bird, plant, and marine life, and the seasonal routines of its stoical residents. In Hatteras Journal she writes evocatively of a harsh but alluring world, where “in summer the sea oats explode with tawny seeds, the black shimmers float over Pamlico Sound, the loggerheads heave themselves ashore on silent nights.” In conjunction with her perceptive observations about the natural life she encounters, she describes the futility of former government policies such as dune construction, the dangers of peat mining to the sounds and bays, the efforts to offer protection to loggerhead turtles on Bald Head Island, and the evolution of Hurricane Gloria and its effects at the barrier islands. This can be a vividly rendered account of the rigors and rewards of dwelling in a habitat where only essentially the most resilient varieties of life―natural and human―have the capacity to prevail.


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