Local historian Jack Dudley returns with his latest retrospective, the lavishly illustrated Bogue Banks: A Look Back. Fans of his earlier work on Morehead City, Swansboro, Beaufort and Ocracoke, as well as his illustrated histories of Waterfowling traditions, will want to have this book to complete their collection. Dudley brings all of his knowledge and experience with coastal history and folklore to bear in his latest book. We promise you won't be disappointed.

About the book:

Bogue Banks: A Look Back is a photographic history of the Bogue Banks from the early 1900s through the 1960s.  The images in this volume are divided into six photo-chapters that provide a pictorial documentary of Fort Macon, early lifeboat stations, road construction, Atlantic Beach, fishing and dwellings, as well as nature scenes and aerials of Bogue Banks before development took place on a massive scale.

In addition to providing a documentary of landmarks and activities of the past, another intent of this volume is to emphasize the artistic merits of the photographs. To some readers, history is dull and boring, but the art of photography has been a wonderful tool in making the past come alive. Over 300 images give visitors and newcomers an insight into Bogue Banks' colorful heritage and the native Bogue Bankers and other Carteret Countians an opportunity to relive their past.