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Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy (Mary, Turner+=
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Item specifics
- Condition
- PublishedOn
- 1997-02-25
- ISBN
- 9780801855894
- EAN
- 9780801855894
- Book Title
- Chesapeake Boyhood : Memoirs of a Farm Boy
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Hunting, Personal Memoirs, Fishing, Sociology / Rural
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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''Whether you're a farmer, hunter, fisherman, environmentalist, or one who can take or leave nature, passages in Turner's book will make you smile, laugh, and want to cry . . . Episodes of his boyhood will remind you of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. His book is worthy of a place on the shelf with them.''--Virginian Pilot Chesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression. Turner's stories include rousing tales of 'coon hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and Saturday jaunts to town. Turner brings the characters, experiences, waterscape, and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one has done before or is likely ever to do again. His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm. ''Its chief virtue (besides its highly literate style), it seems to me, is its intimate, sensory knowledge of a vanishing Chesapeake landscape: its sounds and smells, the way things feel to the touch, the lore lodged in the names of the commonest creatures and activities . . . At one point Turner likens the local farmers and fishermen sitting around the table in the country store to fixed positions on a compass, with 'all the cardinal points taken,' and I think of this [book] as a kind of compass too, that describes one man's orientation to the Eastern Shore.''--Andrea Hammer, St. Mary's College ''Modern outdoor writing has enough anemic adventures by faint-hearted writers reared in the suburbs. What it needs more of is the droll wit of an Ed Zern, the robust foolishness of a Patrick McManus, and the lean prose of an Ernest Hemingway. It gets all three in the tales of Bill Turner.''--George Regier, author of Heron Hill Chronicle and Wanderer on My Native Shore ''Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution.''-Waterman's Gazette
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801855896
ISBN-13
9780801855894
eBay Product ID (ePID)
674976
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chesapeake Boyhood : Memoirs of a Farm Boy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Hunting, Personal Memoirs, Fishing, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ct275.T955a3 1997
Edition Description
Reprint
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Whether you're a farmer, hunter, fisherman, environmentalist, or one who can take or leave nature, passages in Turner's book will make you smile, laugh, and want to cry... Episodes of his boyhood will remind you of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. His book is worthy of a place on the shelf with them., ""Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution."", Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution., "Whether you're a farmer, hunter, fisherman, environmentalist, or one who can take or leave nature, passages in Turner's book will make you smile, laugh, and want to cry... Episodes of his boyhood will remind you of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. His book is worthy of a place on the shelf with them." -- Virginian Pilot, "Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution."-- Waterman's Gazette
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Lccn
96-045129
Dewey Decimal
975.5/18
Series
Maryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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