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Down the Wild Cape Fear
Philip Gerard
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Ratgeber / Natur
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Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river, among them a river guide, a photographer, a biologist, a river keeper, and a boat captain. Historical voices also lend their wisdom to our understanding of this river, which has been a main artery of commerce, culture, settlement, and war for the entire region since it was first discovered by Verrazzano in 1524.
Gerard explores the myriad environmental and political issues being played out along the waters of the Cape Fear. These include commerce and environmental stewardship, wilderness and development, suburban sprawl and the decline and renaissance of inner cities, and private rights versus the public good.
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Brunswick town, N.C., history and settlement, Island Creek and Titan Cement, Blockade Runners during the Civil War, Fort Fisher battle and historic site, Wilmington, N.C., history and settlement, Naval Stores industry in North Carolina, DDT and the brown pelican, Mermaid Point, White ibis rookery, Fort Fisher hermit’s mysterious death, World War II shipbuilding, Paddling kayaks and canoes, Plantation life on the Cape Fear, Ancient cypress trees on the Black River, Cape Fear River, James Sprunt, Buckhorn Dam, Menhaden fishery, Steamboats on the Cape Fear, William B. Gould, runaway slave, Alligator nesting habits, U.S.S. North Carolina battleship museum