
An Island Out of Time
A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
Tom Horton(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 6. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-393-33146-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33146-2 (9780393331462)
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Person
Tom Horton has written numerous books about the Chesapeake Bay. He lives in Riverton, Maryland.