An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
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Book 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679781056
ISBN13:9780679781059
Release Date:May 1997
Publisher:Vintage Books USA
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.63 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Excellent Portrait of Chesapeake Bay Life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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.
An extraordinary writer on an extraordinary place
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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.
Almost poetic, Horton captures the spirit of time and place.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Tom Horton's "An Island Out of Time" is more than just a documentary of life on Smith Island, it's a paean to individuality, to spirituality, and to the love of things natural whether they result in environmental disaster or reclamation. The uniqueness of life on a semi-isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay is also a refreshing look at the idea of community - unburdened by political correctness or ultra-sophisticated analysis. Horton waxes poetically about the sun's play over the marshes, or the clarity of the water, the coldness of the waves in a storm, and the gradual decay of the island's ability to survive. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone who wants to understand the real impacts of the Chesapeake - or celebrate its uniqueness.
First rate!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Horton writes an environmental column in the Baltimore Sunwhich Isometimes enjoy and sometimes don't. So I was prepared for Island Out of Time to be average. But I was more than pleasantly surprised. Horton has written a first-rate account of the watermen and their families on Smith Island from the first-hand observations of his family, which lived on the island for several years, as well as great oral accounts from the islanders themselves.
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