The Workboats of Core Sound: Stories and Photographs of a Changing World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781469610641)

Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world. As Lawrence S. Earley discovered, each workboat has stories to tell, of boatbuilders and fishermen, and of family members and past events associated with these boats. The rich history of these hand-built wooden fishing boats, the people who work them, and the communities they serve lies at the heart of Earley's evocative new book of essays, interviews, and photographs.
In conversations with the region's fishermen and boatbuilders, the author finds webs of decades-old social history and realizes that workboats are critical in maintaining a community's memories and its very sense of identity. Including nearly 100 of Earley's own striking duotones, this richly illustrated book brings to life the world of a fishing culture threatened by local and global forces.

Author: Lawrence S. Earley
ISBN-10: 1469610647
ISBN-13: 9781469610641
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2013
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.11lbs
Size: 9.26h x 10.30w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/03/2013