Pat Conroy
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existenceâ€“unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher.,Here is PAT CONROYâ€™S extraordinary drama based on his own experienceâ€“the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island and the new life its people gave him.
Autobiography,Memoir,Nonfiction,Biography,Education,American,Southern,Biography Memoir,Teaching,History,Biography,Autobiography,Classics
The Water is Wide