ISBN: 9780307422514

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this small, relaxed oa… More...

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this small, relaxed oasis in the ocean. This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy’s classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in the New York Times, called his genius for close observation.In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island’s history from the glory days of the whaling boom to the present, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between the working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the balance. But most fascinating of all, he tells his own story--of playing jazz piano in the island’s bars; of raising a barn in the early '60s with the help of a bunch of hippie carpenters; of leasing an old, failed bar with two island pals and turning it into the Roadhouse, a club that was to be ours, the year-rounders, and to hell with the summer people. There’s a marvelous story of his first golf game, played on an ancient nine-hole course with two friends, a part-time sommelier and a builder from the South who invented the one-handed pepper mill. This is a book that revels in friendship, music, history, and the gorgeous landscape of a unique American place, and is a wonderful work by one of our greatest contemporary writers. Digital Content>E-books>Travel>Travel Writing>Trav Writ Domes, Crown Publishing Group Digital >16<

2012, ISBN: 9780307422514

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed o… More...

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, Adventure & Literary Travel, Travel, Time and Tide~~ Frank Conroy~~Adventure & Literary Travel~~Travel~~9780307422514, en, Time and Tide, Frank Conroy, 9780307422514, Crown, 12/18/2007, , , , Crown, 12/18/2007<

ISBN: 9780307422514

Time and Tide ab 15.99 € als epub eBook: A Walk Through Nantucket Crown. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Reise, https://media.hugendubel.de/shop/coverscans/212/21233232_21233232_big.jpg

2007, ISBN: 9780307422514

A Walk Through Nantucket, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: Crown/Archetype]

2007, ISBN: 9780307422514

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Crown/Archetype], Crown/Archetype, 2007