There are many wonderful books and resources about the Historic Albemarle Region. We've provided you with this bibliography of just a few. When you purchase one of these titles from Amazon.com, a percentage of your purchase comes back to HAT to help us continue our mission of tourism, education and preservation. Select a subject below:
African-American History
Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedman's Colony, Patricia C. Click
University of North Carolina Press, $18.95
The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, David S. Cecelski
University of North Carolina Press, $12.57
Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage, Dorothy Spruill Redford
University of North Carolina Press, $13.27
A History of African Americans in North Carolina, Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley
NC Office of Archives and History, $15.00
Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, David Wright
Scribner, $6.78
Civil War
The Battle of Plymouth North Carolina: The Last Confederate Victory, Juanita Patience Moss
Heritage Books, $32.00
Ironclads and Columbiads: The Coast (Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 3), William R. Trotter
John F. Blair, $12.95
The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina, John S. Carbone
NC Office of Archives and History, $18.00
Colonial
Bath Towne, Linda Reeves
NC Office of Archives and History, $2.00
Bath: The First Town in North Carolinae, Alan D. Watson
NC Office of Archives and History, $18.00
Culture
Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue , Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling
University of North Carolina Press, $11.17
Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian's Coastal Plain, Bland Simpson
University of North Carolina Press, $19.95
Coastal Carolina Cooking, Nancy Davis and Kathy Hart
University of North Carolina Press, $11.17
Environment
Islands, Capes, and Sounds: The North Carolina Coast, Thomas Schoenbaum
John F. Blair, $10.36
North Carolina's Hurricane History, Jay Barnes
University of North Carolina Press, $19.95
Seacoast Life: An Ecological Guide to Natural Seashore Communities in North Carolina, Judith M. Spitsbergen
University of North Carolina Press, $9.95
Paddling Eastern North Carolina, Paul Ferguson
Pocosin Press, $19.95
Wild Shores: Exploring the Wilderness Areas of Eastern North Carolina, Walter K. Taylor
Down Home Press, $20.00
The Natural Traveler Along North Carolina's Coast, John Manuel
John F. Blair, $18.95
A Historian's Coast: Adventures Into the Tidewater Past, David Cecelski
John F. Blair, $16.95
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina, Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern
University of North Carolina Press, $13.97
General and Local History
North Carolina Through Four Centuries, William S. Powell
University of North Carolina Press, $32.50
Edenton and Chowan County North Carolina, Louis Van Camp
Arcadia Press, $19.99
Ocracokers, Alton Ballance
University of North Carolina Press, $10.47
Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks, Rodney Barfield
University of North Carolina Press, $13.97
The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir, Bland Simpson
University of North Carolina Press, $14.95
The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958, David Stick
University of North Carolina Press, $11.87
Bertie County: A Brief History, Alan D. Watson
NC Office of Archives and History, $6.00
Dare County: A Brief History, David Stick
NC Office of Archives and History, $6.00
Edgecombe County: A Brief History, Alan D. Watson
NC Office of Archives and History, $6.00
Perquimans County: A Brief History, Alan D. Watson
NC Office of Archives and History, $6.00
Perquimans County, North Carolina, Perquimans County Library and Perquimans County Restoration Association
Arcadia Press, $19.99
Hatteras Journal, Jan DeBlieu
John F. Blair, $12.95
Maritime
Pirates of Colonial North Carolina, Hugh F. Rankin
NC Office of Archives and History, $8.00
Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast, Lindley S. Butler
University of North Carolina Press, $11.17
Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast , David Stick
University of North Carolina Press, $11.17
North Carolina Lighthouses, David Stick
NC Office of Archives and History, $8.00
Cape Hatteras: America's Lighthouse, Thomas Yocum
Cumberland House, $16.95
Ship Ashore! The U.S. Lifesavers of Coastal North Carolina, Joe A. Mobley
NC Office of Archives and History, $12.00
Blackbeard the Pirate: A Reappraisal of His Life and Times, Robert E. Lee
John F. Blair, $8.76
Cruising Guide to Coastal North Carolina, Claiborne Young
John F. Blair, $52.50
First Flight
Triumph at Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers and Powered Flight, Thomas C. Parramore
NC Office of Archives and History, $10.00
Native American
The American Indian in North Carolina, Douglas L. Rights
John F. Blair, $29.90
Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina, Theda Perdue
NC Office of Archives and History, $8.00
Indian Wars in North Carolina, 1663-1763, E. Lawrence Lee
NC Office of Archives and History, $8.00
Early Settlement
Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America, David Stick
University of North Carolina Press, $11.16
A New Voyage to Carolina, John Lawson
University of North Carolina Press, $22.50
Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606, David Beers Quinn
University of North Carolina Press, $24.00
The Lost Colonists: Their Fortune and Probable Fate, David Beers Quinn
NC Office of Archives and History, $8.00
The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
Edited with an Introduction by David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn
NC Office of Archives and History, $12.00
Mapping the North Carolina Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages, William P. Cumming
NC Office of Archives and History, $12.00
General Travel
North Carolina, Sheila Turnage
Compass American Guides, $19.95
100 Secrets of the Carolina Coast, Randall Ducket
Rutledge Hill Press, $10.36
Touring the Backroads of North Carolina's Upper Coast, Daniel W. Barefoot
John F. Blair, $21.95
