Porcher's Creek: Lives Between the Tides

by John Leland

Book Overview

A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast

"Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways....I resolved to make my living as an explorer and said so in school when we were all asked what we planned to do upon our growing up."

John Leland lived a Huckleberry Finn sort of boyhood that most children would envy. A fifth-generation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570034575
• ISBN13: 9781570034572
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.6"