An Island Out of Time

Download or read book An Island Out of Time written by Tom Horton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.