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Tom Horton
The most entertaining and informative book that you’ll purchase this year is South Carolina historian Tom Horton’s / History’s Lost Moments: the stories that your teacher never told you.
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Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for the Outstanding Book of Nature Writing, this book focuses on the Chesapeake Bay region. It offers observations of the politics, nature and people…
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He has captured in full the life of the island. -Washington Post Book World
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Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in mid-Chesapeake Bay, nine miles from the mainland, home to 150 watermen and their families. This book is a portrait of a people who…
Mr Tom Horton
Dr. Tom Horton writes history in the same folksy manner that he’s known for across the state in his banquet addresses. The stories he tells are the ones that he…
Moses Waddel (1770-1840) founded one of the most famous classical academies in early America. Among his most famous students were John C. Calhoun, Andrew Crawford, Hugh Swinton Legare, and James…
Tom Horton’s stories, over 400 in all, on local and Southern history, have entertained and enlightened folks for decades. As a noted history teacher, newspaper columnist, and banquet speaker, Horton…
Hulbert Footner
The second edition brings back a beloved 1944 book about the Eastern Shore, with new biographical notes from the author’s granddaughter and a foreword by Tom Horton, well-known environmentalist and…
Tom Horton,Chesapeake Bay Foundation
For all those who want to know not only how much must be done to save the Chesapeake Bay but what they can do and how they can make a…
David W. Harp,Tom Horton
Despite rampant development and agricultural abuse, the Nanticoke remains one of the pristine rivers of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, looking much as it did when Captain John Smith first sailed…
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…
The story of the Chesapeake Bay region unfolds through the photographs and prose of two men who have made a lifelong study of the area. They reveal hidden nooks of…
Wade Bradford
"Horton has a fright while walking alone at night, when he hears a little boo and isn't sure what to do."--
Donnie Snyder,Ken Horton
Tom Landry was a man who by his very character inspired those who knew him to be better people in every facet of their lives. Much has been documented about…
Preston Sturges
A collection that includes The Power and the Glory , which greatly influenced Orson Welles in the conception of Citizen Kane , and the romantic comedies Remember the Night and…
For whom did Christ die? Who may be saved? are questions of perennial interest and importance for the Christian faith. In a familiar Counterpoints format, this book explores the question…
