TY - BOOK ID - 77920950 TI - Down the wild Cape Fear : a river journey through the heart of North Carolina PY - 2013 SN - 146960812X 1469608138 9781469608129 9781469608136 9781469602073 1469602075 PB - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology KW - Natural history KW - Boats and boating KW - History, Natural KW - Natural science KW - Physiophilosophy KW - Biology KW - Science KW - Ecology KW - Environment, Human KW - Human beings KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - Boat handling KW - Boating KW - Boats KW - Boats, Primitive KW - Pleasure boating KW - Recreation boating KW - Recreational boating KW - Recreational boats KW - Watercraft KW - Locomotion KW - Ship handling KW - Aquatic sports KW - Boatbuilding KW - Sailing KW - Ships KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Recreational use KW - Gerard, Philip KW - Travel KW - Cape Fear River Valley (N.C.) KW - Cape Fear River (N.C.) KW - Cape Fear Valley (N.C.) KW - Environmental conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - History. KW - Description and travel. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77920950 AB - In 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 comme ER -