Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Boca Chica
Chapter 2. Sand
Chapter 3. Padre Island
Chapter 4. Treasure
Chapter 5. Big Wind
Chapter 6. Galveston
Chapter 7. Delta
Chapter 8. Fingers in the Dike
Chapter 9. Odd Men Out
Chapter 10. Sea Islands
Chapter 11. The Land
Chapter 12. Hugo
Chapter 13. King of North Carolina
Chapter 14. Bankers
