What with one book and another, the Chesapeake has been pretty well worked over - and still there's a fascination in the skipjacks as the one U.S. fishing fleet under sail (thanks to an 1865 Maryland conservation law), in the tricky, inbred life of the islands and bay. Peffer, a young prep-school teacher, went to Tilghman Island thinking to "investigate my ancestry, " and, finding no trace of his roots, proffers instead some island lore and so...
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