Rivers of the Eastern Shore:
Seventeen Maryland Rivers
[Rivers of America Series - edited by Hervey Alien and Carl Carmer]
by Hulbert Footner

Footner takes his reader on a leisurely voyage up and down the many rivers and creeks of Maryland's Eastern Shore - stopping at little towns and old homes and in and out of the lives of those who inhabit this formerly cut off and remote region on the east coast of America. This is less a history and more the anecdotal story of adventure in the good life which for centuries consisted of a unique blend of easy living, cheap fresh food including the world's best seafood and a full table of discourse and insight into the joys of living without danger, want or a great need for money. Footner finds the right pace to keep a good story going and, lordy me, did he succeed. This book has never gone out of print. Today, each new arrival to the Eastern Shore - a "come here" [from somewhere else] - gets his or her copy of this time tested Footner learn- how-to manual to guide them directly to the heart of the "land of pleasant living."

375 pp. map, index
Illustrated with drawings by Aaron Sopher
Hardcover
Originally published by Farrar & Rinehart, 1944
Tidewater Publishers, since 1964
Price: $35.00; including shipping (USA) and handling.