Tangier Island

Place, People, and Talk

• Author(s): David L. Shores,
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Pages: 293
• ISBN_10: 0874137179
  ISBN_13: 9780874137170
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / General , Travel / United States / General ,

Description:... This book is an account of the island's inhabitants from their beginnings in the late 1700s to their portrayal as an isolated community under siege, and a description of the way they talk. Talk has the prior claim, but place and people deserve and get equal notice because talk could not be fully understood without an appreciation of the inhabitants' history and as well as social and working lives.