The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast: Barrier Islands, Coastal Waters, and Wetlands
- ISBN-10
- 0807846554
- ISBN-13
- 9780807846551
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Dirk Frankenberg
Description
With The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast, Dirk Frankenberg's effort to provide a comprehensive field guide to the state's dynamic shoreline is complete. Picking up where his 1995 book The Nature of the Outer Banks left off, this bo
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- 2012-03-12
- 272 pages
- Ebook
- Univ of North Carolina Press
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