Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket, Frank Conroy
  • $6.96
    • Facebook Share
    • Twitter Share
    • Pinterest Share

Details

Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket

Author: Frank Conroy

Narrator: Frank Conroy

Abridged: 1 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 04/06/2004

Genre: Travel - Essays & Travelogues

Synopsis

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy’s classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in the New York Times, called his "genius for close observation."

In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island’s history from the glory days of the whaling boom to the present, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between the working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the balance. But most fascinating of all, he tells his own story--of playing jazz piano in the island’s bars; of raising a barn in the early '60s with the help of a bunch of hippie carpenters; of leasing an old, failed bar with two island pals and turning it into the Roadhouse, a club "that was to be ours, the year-rounders, and to hell with the summer people." There’s a marvelous story of his first golf game, played on an ancient nine-hole course with two friends, a part-time sommelier and a builder from the South who invented the one-handed pepper mill.

This is a book that revels in friendship, music, history, and the gorgeous landscape of a unique American place, and is a wonderful work by one of our greatest contemporary writers.


From the Hardcover edition.

Recommended

The Grand Gypsy Around The World With The Circus
The Grand Gypsy
by Ottavio Canestrelli with Ottavio Gesmundo

What do Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, and Ed Sullivan have in common? Ottavio Canestrelli crossed paths with each. He performed with the Krone Circus in Italy and Germany from 1922 to 1924 on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power; he witnessed a r...

Narrator: Ottavio Gesmundo
Published: 11/26/2020

Time and Tide A Walk Through Nantucket
Time and Tide
by Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, pa...

Narrator: Frank Conroy
Published: 04/06/2004

Steven Raichlens Marthas Vineyard Stories and Recipes from Island Apart
Steven Raichlens Marthas Vineyard
by Steven Raichlen

Join celebrated PBS TV host and New York Times bestselling author, Steven Raichlen, for a personal guided tour of Martha's Vineyard, including his favorite places to shop for the freshest seafood and best local produce. This original companion audio...

Narrator: Steven Raichlen
Published: 06/01/2012

Jalan-Jalan A Journey of Wanderlust and Motherhood
Jalan-Jalan
by Margo Weinstein

Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood?Margo Weinstein did.For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the ki...

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Published: 05/24/2022

City of the Soul A Walk in Rome
City of the Soul
by William Murray

“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.Growing up in Rome and spending much of his lif...

Narrator: Grover Gardner
Published: 12/16/2003

Finding 42: Cut The Rope A Soul's Awakening
Finding 42: Cut The Rope
by Benny Mailman

Finding 42, at its core, is an amazing adventure series that will thrust you into the adventurous and magical world of Benny Mailman as he breaks from a forced reality and creates his own. Humor is the air Benny breathes, and insight is hi...

Narrator: Adam Trupp
Published: 04/14/2021

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic A "Walk" in Austin
The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic
by Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jew boy, guides readers through the sights, sounds, food, and various and sundry oddities of his favorite Texas city. Known for live music and food, Austin is also the home of Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Stevie R...

Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Published: 07/08/2004

Local Wonders Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
Local Wonders
by Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of his grandmothers...

Narrator: Ted Kooser
Published: 08/06/2009

England's Best Haunted Pubs & Inn's
England's Best Haunted Pubs & Inn's
by Steven Plant

England`s Best Haunted Place`s Ghosts, Myths & Legends From London to Derbyshire (Royalties go to QUEEN's Brian May`S charity ) Ghostly Sightings of the Ladies in White Pubs of Hauntings & Legends England's Haunted Pubs & Inns A Ghostly ...

Narrator: Bruce Cullen
Published: 06/07/2018
{"id":"319979","ean":"9780739308257","abr":"Abridged","title":"Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket","subtitle":"A Walk Through Nantucket","author":"Frank Conroy","rating_average":"3","narrator":"Frank Conroy","ubr_id":"1046654","abr_id":"319979","ubr_price":"12.95","abr_price":"9.95","ubr_memprice":"8.42","abr_memprice":"6.47","ubr_narrator":"","abr_narrator":"Frank Conroy","ubr_length":"Unabridged: 2 hr 14 min","abr_length":"Abridged: 1 hr 58 min"}