chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland\'s famous estuary.
In a new afterword for this edition, Horton brings the story of Smith Island, and its people, up to the present..
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. chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland\'s famous estuary