| Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy Contributor(s): Turner, William H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801855896 ISBN-13: 9780801855894 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96045129 |
| Series: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.99" W x 8.94" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Virginia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turner, William H.: - William H. Turner is an internationally renowned sculptor. Born in 1935 in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in anthropology in 1957 and from the Medical College of Virginia dental school in 1969. During the 1960s, his interest in painting and sculpture gradually led to his becoming a full-time sculptor. He lives on the shores of the Chesapeake and has a studio on Route 13 near Onley, Virginia. |