An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake - Softcover
A small island, home to five hundred watermen and their families, is the subject of a study about a community that has remained true to its past while witnessing the decline of the natural world surrounding it. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Although the archipelago known as Smith Island sits in Chesapeake Bay, just off Maryland's eastern shore, it is in some ways a place lost in time and space. Lacking a police force, a high school, or a hospital, it still carries the flavor of another era. People earn a tough living from crabbing, which means 18-hour work days for six months of the year, and they still speak a heavily accented language that some scholars believe dates back to Elizabethan times. In 1987, Tom Horton, an environmental writer for the Baltimore Sun, moved with his family to this 300-year-old community. This thoughtful, well-written book is his record of the two years they spent there.
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Tom Horton has written numerous books about the Chesapeake Bay. He lives in Riverton, Maryland.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679781056
- ISBN 13 9780679781059
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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