Author: Horton, Tom

Price: $16.41

Category:Biographies
Publication Date:2008-04-28T00:00:01Z
Pages:336
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0393331466
ISBN:13:9780393331462
"He has captured in full the life of the island."—Washington Post Book World A classic of Chesapeake Bay literature, Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland's famous estuary. The result is an intimate portrait of a deeply traditional community that lived much as their ancestors did three hundred years before, attuned to the habits of blue crab, oyster, and waterfowl. In a new afterword for this edition, Horton brings the story of Smith Island, and its people, up to the present.