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"This is the true story of the 'first family' of sportfishing in the billfish capital of the world. Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Today, Ernal's son, Captain Ernie Foster, struggles to keep the family business alive in a time of great change on the Banks. Within the engaging saga of the rise and decline of one family's livelihood, Carlson relates the history and transformation of Hatteras Village and the high-adrenaline experience of blue-water sportfishing and the industry that surrounds it. """"Hatteras Blues"""" is their story - a story of triumph and loss, of sturdy Calvinist values and pell-mell American progress, and of fate and luck as capricious as the weather."

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9780807871225

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Does this great sport fishery justice. If you love the Banks - the real Banks from Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke - you will love this book. - Gray's Sporting Journal Deserves to be read, reread, discussed, taught, written about, reprinted, and otherwise kept alive - for its sake and ours. Without exaggeration, this book deserves a permanent place in the... company of Thoreau's Cape Cod, Beston's The Outermost House, and Maclean's A River Runs Through It. It deserves to become a classic. - North Carolina Literary Review

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Tom Carlson taught creative nonfiction and American literature for thirty-two years at the University of Memphis.

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