Tom Horton
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This book of more than 150 vibrant photographs and seven essays depicts the natural history, human history, science, and culture of the Delmarva Peninsula's largest river. Explore the Choptank River - from its beginnings at upstream springs and farm ditches to its broad estuary below Cambridge, Maryland - discover its inhabitants and learn about the impact of human activity on the natural environment." -- Dust jacket
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1989, c1987.
Language
English
Description
Bay Country is nature writing at its most informed and informative. Personal, even lyrical, but never in isolation, it looks at our environment broadly and deeply. The secret, Horton tells us, 'is that I never thought I was just writing about fish.'