From Currituck to Calabash: Living with North Carolina's Barrier Islands
- ISBN-10
- 0822305488
- ISBN-13
- 9780822305484
- Category
- Science (General)
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Orrin H. Pilkey
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