An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake - Hardcover

Horton, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393039382 ISBN 13: 9780393039382

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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.

About the Author:

Tom Horton has written numerous books about the Chesapeake Bay. He lives in Riverton, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393039382
• ISBN 13: 9780393039382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316