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The Nature Guide to the Carolina Coast is the perfect resource for coastal residents and visitors along the Carolina Coast. It’s a great beachcomer’s handbook that is useful to any seaside explorer.

It is a practical, entertaining, reader-friendly guide to the common animals, plants, and environment of the Carolina coast.

Fully illustrated, with over 150 color photographs to aid with identification of over 120 subjects, plus additional drawings with in-depth information on each subject.

Scientifically accurate, yet written in language the lay public can understand. It is a perfect resource for coastal residents and visitors along the North Carolina/South Carolina, and even the Georgia coast.

A beachcomber’s handbook; valuable to any seaside explorer.

Nature Guide to the Carolina Coast, second edition, was published in 2010. The new edition is a completely revised, updated, and expanded version of the first edition, which was published in 1991. The first edition went through 10 printings and sold more than 75,000 copies, making it the best-selling Carolina coast field guide.

Nature Guide, second edition, remains a practical, entertaining, reader-friendly guide to the common animals, plants, and environment of the Carolina coast.

The text is fully illustrated, with over 150 color photographs, along with hundreds of pen & ink drawings. The photos and illustrations identify over 120 subjects, with in-depth information provided on each subject.

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• A beachcomber’s handbook, valuable to any seaside explorer.
• Perfect resource for coastal residents & visitors.

 

A Nautical Chart, In Any Form Is A Perfect Accent For Your Coastal Home.

 

This beautiful Nautical Chart shows the details of the North and South Carolina Coasts, and offshore waters, from Cape Hatteras to Charleston with accurate depths. It is reproduced from actual NOAA charts as Museum Quality Giclée Prints. These Giclée Prints use archival inks and will not fade over time! As GPS has become universally adopted nautical charts are being used less and less. We expect that they will soon become a thing of the past.

Available in several sizes – all to fit standard frame sizes!

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A full history of Sunset Beach NC with stories from many of the “old timers” who were eye witnesses to events. Some are funny, some are shocking – all are fascinating. No true Sunset Beach Lover should be without this book!

This book is not a chronicle of everyday town government minutiae. If you seek a record of town council battles and meetings you will have to seek it elsewhere.

Politics cannot be totally avoided in an honest history of the town so the authors have tried to present the opinions of the towns’ in their own words. They are not necessarily the opinions of the authors.

There is little debate that the number one issue that has fueled among town factions for years has been “The Bridge.” As this is being written, the war that raged for decades and has cost the state and federal treasuries millions of dollars is at last over. The court has spoken – a new high-rise bridge will now serve the town.

Over the years, there have been many issues that have caused division between the townsfolk, and almost all the interviewees mentioned being involved in a debate or two.

At the end of the day, after all is said and done…we are all blessed to be here, in this paradise by the sea.

The people in this book have contributed to this endeavor by telling their stories. Without them, this book would not have been written. And so…we give you a journey through the past.

Locals should want a copy of this handy, 144-page, hardcover volume, which follows the format of coffee table edition you might see in banks, doctors’ offices and hotel lobbies. The price is $29.95.

It’s dedicated to Paul Edward Hughes, Sunset Beach’s beloved semi-official Town Historian, who died in 2005.

Separate sections note the “Kindred Spirit” beach mailbox (did you remember it was once orange?), the wreck of the Civil War blockade runner Vesta, the Ingram Planetarium, the Bird Island sanctuary and more. A number of prominent local residents are profiled; you can bet the Gore family gets plenty of space.

(In case you’re a newbie and don’t know who Mannon C. Gore is, flip to page 24, and there’s a photo of him in his World War II Navy uniform. Gore, incidentally, built the first bridge to Sunset Beach, all the way back in 1958.)

In addition to Pope’s gorgeous color artwork, the book has plenty of color nature photos by celebrated area Artist/Photographer Ken Buckner.

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About the Authors:

Jacqueline “Jack” DeGroot and her husband Bill, bought property in Sea Trail Plantation in 1992 and began planning their ‘early retirement,’ (if one could consider it retirement with three kids in tow). In 1996 they both retired from their jobs. You can often see Bill and Jack having lunch at local restaurants squabbling over issues for the next book.

DeGroot, who was once one of northern Virginia’s top auto sales managers, bought property at Sea Trail with her husband back in 1992 and settled here permanently in 1996. She’s a prolific author of (often steamy) romance novels and mysteries, including “Secret of the Kindred Spirit” and “Shipwrecked at Sunset.” Earlier, she and Pope collaborated on “Tales of the Silver Coast,” an informal history of Brunswick County with an emphasis on the beaches. Her website is www.jacquelinedegroot.com.

Miller Pope was a partner in a New York ad agency and a freelance illustrator. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators, a prestigious group of talented artists. He and his wife, Helen, bought property at Ocean Isle in 1969. And avid historian, his first book was a history of Brunswick County. He wrote and illustrated fourteen books.

Pope was once one of America’s top magazine illustrators and a partner in a New York advertising agency (a past he chronicled in his delightful little book “Confessions of a Mad Man”). He relocated to Ocean Isle Beach in 1975 and was one of the original partners in Sea Trail Plantation. He had a great love of history especially buccaneers and has wrote about them in such books as “Pirates of the Carolinas” and “Infamous Pirates and Their Incredible Lives.” Check him out at www.millerpope.com.