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Joe Conroy first visited Nantucket with a bunch of college friends in 1955. They arrived on a whim, and for Conroy it had been the start of a life-long romance with this specific "small, calm retreat in the sea." This guide, part travel journal, part memoir, is just a hauntingly private and evocative trip through Nantucket: its sweeping concealed woodlands, rugged moors, distant beaches, secret fishing spots, and dunes and cranberry bogs. Lovers of Conroy’s vintage and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again enjoy what James Atlas, writing in the Brand New York Times, named his "guru for near observation."In Time and Hold, Conroy recounts the island’s background in the glory days of the whaling growth to the current, when vacation characterizes. He strongly evokes the conflict of civilizations between your working-class and the super rich, with all the delicate ecology of the area usually in the total amount.