Treading Clams

By Francis Bennett

Treading Clams is a young man's memoir of growing up in a small seaside town at the end of the Second World War. Like the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John "The Crabber" White takes us on eight different life changing adventures across an all American landscape from clamming in the Great South Bay to betting the horses at Yonkers Raceway to a kill or be killed adventure on a hunting trip deep in the Adirondack mountains. The Crabber reminds us of a more romantic time in American history when "boys will be boys" and children grew up unsupervised on the streets and back lots of small town America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Francis Bennett
• Release date: Oct 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9780989235396

Francis Bennett

Visit Francis' website at www.francisbennettcreative.com

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