Amazon.com description: Product Description: Originally published in 1861, The Parson of the Islands is a biography of the Rev. Joshua Thomas. It embraces sketches of his contemporaries, and remarkable camp meeting scenes, revival incidents and reminiscences of the introduction of Methodism on the Islands of the Chesapeake, and the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia...As a man of God, the "Parson" ministered to his scattered parishioners with fervent zeal. An industrious man, Rev. Thomas earned his livelihood as a bay fisherman. In this undertaking, he was considered one of the best on Tangier Island. He was also an excellent canoe builder. His own canoe, the "Methodist," was known up and down the bay and its tributaries. It was his means of transportation around his charge and on his trips to camp meetings and other religious gatherings... This reprint edition of September 1978, is published by the Deal Island Regional Bicentennial Committee through a grant from the Maryland Bicentennial Commission.