Download or read book Gravesend Light written by David Payne and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Madden, an anthropologist, returns to his family's summer home on North Carolina's Outer Banks to begin an ethnographic study on Little Roanoke, an isolated coastal vilalge threatened by the encroachment of modern civilization.