Porcher's Creek: Lives between the Tides - Hardcover

Leland, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570034575 ISBN 13: 9781570034572

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2002

Synopsis

A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast; Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways.... I resolved to make my living as an explorer and said so in school when we were all asked what we planned to do upon our growing up. John Leland lived a Huckleberry Finn sort of boyhood that most children would envy. A fifth-generation lowcountry native, he grew up fishing, swimming, and hunting arrowheads on a tidal creek just north of Charleston, South Carolina. With admirable freedom, he poled his bateau through the maze of oyster banks and the tangle of salt waterways known as Porcher's Creek. He spent years learning where the conchs congregated, where the clams kept secret rendezvous, and which hole hid the sweetest crabs. He became a naturalist by studying heron, frogs, and porpoises. Leland's existence was so interwined with Porcher's Creek that he lived, slept, and ate by its tides and seasons - until exiled by family misfortune and suburban encroachment. Leland combines nature writing and reminiscence with a heartfelt examination of change along the South Carolina coast. He celebra

About this title

About the Author:

JOHN LELAND grew up outside Charleston, South Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he teaches English at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Leland lives with his wife and children in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1570034575
• ISBN 13: 9781570034572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136