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A small island home to five hundred watermen and their families, Smith Island is the subject of an elegant study about a community that has stayed true to its past while witnessing the decline of the natural wonders surrounding it in Chesapeake Bay. Tour.

"A lush, intimate portrait of Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay....Horton is everywhere: taking the island doctor's testimony; marveling at the island artist's tale; attentive to micro-dialects, sacred groves; tracking the seasons' shifts."

Kirkus, 04/01/1996

"The book is both a celebration of Smith Island and a requiem for it. Horton sees death and dying all about him, and there is no reason to doubt him....This may seem to suggest that Horton has written a gloomy book, but quite the opposite is true....Horton has done right by Smith Island and its people, right by the Chesapeake Bay, right by himself and his family. 'An Island Out of Time' is conclusive evidence that the Bay has no better friend than Tom Horton, no more eloquent defender, no more honest chronicler."

Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World, 06/16/1996

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