by Bland Simpson and Ann Cary Simpson
Non-Fiction
Soft cover

Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery - of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson.

Bland tours his old waterfronts haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernog vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards.

A memorable journey into eatern Carolina's richly natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.

Into the Sound Country captures the sights and sounds and smells of the North Carolina coast better than any other book.