Cultured Travel Guide Books - An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake |
 |
List Price: $14.00
Our Price: $3.89
Your Save: $ 10.11 ( 72% )
Availability:
|
|
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.223
EAN: 9780679781059
ISBN: 0679781056
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1997-05-27
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 1997-05-27
Studio: Vintage |
| Spotlight Customer Reviews: |
Customer Rating:  
Summary: Tom Horton-from an Islanders perspective
Comment: Tom Horton doesn't always speak for his subject matter in books like "An Island out of Time..." but that tends to be a good thing. Islanders are more concerned for day-to-day matters than overall perspective and I know this well.
I grew up on Smith Island. I left to attend college and now live in the world from which Tom came. I appreciate Tom and his family much more now than when I lived there.
Tom Horton and his family came to Tylerton an outsider. Everyone, including them, knew it. They ended up leaving part of the family. If you want to begin to understand this complex and simply beautiful place then read Tom's books.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Delightful!
Comment: I received this book as a gift, never having heard of the author or Smith Island. After reading the book, I feel very lucky to have discovered a new favorite author. Tom Horton's book is a gem! He's a talented writer and Smith Island is a rare and beautiful subject. As an Iranian, I found his descriptions so enchanting that I plan to visit Smith Island someday soon.
This book is appropriate for all ages and especially for those who appreciate the environment and a simplicity to life that is fast disappearing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Portrait of Chesapeake Bay Life
Comment: Notice that all the reviewers here live near the Chesapeake Bay. This bay will interest and speak to all those that have an interest in a society and environment almost gone. A super read, intimate in detail and beautiful in imagery.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An extraordinary writer on an extraordinary place
Comment: Tom Horton's great gift as a writer is his ability to conjure up the natural world in words. His memoir of his family's time on Smith Island is his best work yet. Note I said yet. A book by Tom Horton is always a cause for rejoicing. His environmental writing is up there with Aldo Leopold and Barry Lopez.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An extraordinary writer on an extraordinary place
Comment: Tom Horton's great gift as a writer is his ability to conjure up the natural world in words. His memoir of his family's time on Smith Island is his best work yet. Note I said yet. A book by Tom Horton is always a cause for rejoicing. His environmental writing is up there with Aldo Leopold and Barry Lopez.
|
| More Reviews |
| Editorial Reviews: |
A small island, home to five hundred watermen and their families, is the subject of a study about a community that has remained true to its past while witnessing the decline of the natural world surrounding it. Reprint. 20,000 first printing."
|
|
|
|
|
