An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake by Tom Horton

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

Tom Horton

336 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

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Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in mid-Chesapeake Bay, nine miles from the mainland, home to 150 watermen and their families. This book is a portrait of a people who have remained intimately connected to the place in which they live, far past...

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