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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780393331462
- ISBN-10: 0393331466
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: April 2008
- Dimensions: 8.32 x 5.54 x 0.79 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 336
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