“Down here, I feel like I belong. Sometimes, when I get back, I run the skiff out by Smith Gut Point and drift there in the sunset, waves slappin' at the sides, cool breeze comin' off the bay, I just want to give a big holler—People, can't you see what you got here?”
Horton lived for nearly three years on Smith Island, recording through observation and interviews the traditions of oystering, crab catching, churchgoing, hunting and poaching, and the social rituals of these fiercely independent men and women. His beautifully elegiac story is about community and isolation, harvest and exploitation, and the risks and charms of being different from the surrounding world.
Author: Tom Horton
Title: An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 310p
Condition: Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
Comments: Crisp copy
