The University of North Carolina Press

287 pp., 6.125 x 9.25

Cloth

ISBN  978-0-8078-0622-7

Published: June 1952

Paper

ISBN  978-0-8078-4261-4

Published: August 1989

Graveyard of the Atlantic

Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast

By David Stick

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This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses heroic rescues and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

About the Author

David Stick is author of The Outer Banks of North Carolina and Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America.

Reviews

"A thrilling record of storm and stress, of cruel seas and shifting sands, of broken ships, tragedy and gallantry is set down in this book. . . . David Stick, who lives on the Outer Banks, captures the spirit of this treacherous coast. He has done a major research job."
--New York Times Book Review

"An engrossing account of shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, between 1526 and the last years of the Second World War."
--New Yorker

"If you like shipwrecks (to read about, that is) you'll revel in Graveyard of the Atlantic, for here more than 600 wrecked vessels are mentioned in this absorbing anthology of deep water tragedies."
--Chicago Tribune