Description
For three hundred years, generations of Tilghman Islanders have lived by harvesting the waters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. They are watermen, an old English term for commercial fishermen, and their lives today retain much of the spirit and simplicity that characterized their land's first Anglo-Saxon settlers. Watermen is the story of their lives told by Randy Peffer, a young writer who came to Tilghman Island to search for his ancestral roots and left a year later with the makings of this book. Watermen is a singular work, a book that will touch anyone who has ever glimpsed the peope of the Chesapeake, whether in literature or in life.
Author: Randall S. Peffer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 03/01/1985
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.08w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780801827372
ISBN10: 080182737X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Nature | Natural Resources
- Nature | Regional
About the Author
Randall S. Peffer teaches writing and literature at Phillips / Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Reader's Digest, Sail, Yankee, and a number of other publications.