The Chesapeake Bay of Yore
Author : Frederick Tilp
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Tilp
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN :
Author : David S. Cecelski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807869724
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author : Swepson Earle
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
ISBN :
Author : Katie Marsico
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1624310613
A tour of the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding area.
Author : Swepson Earle
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Buildings
ISBN :
Author : Alice Jane Lippson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801883385
Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research. This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers—year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen.
Author : Tom Horton
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2003-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610911164
In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an indepth look at the Bay’s vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been done and what remained to be done to clean up the Bay. This new edition of Turning the Tide addresses new developments of the past decade and examines the factors that will have the most significant effects on the health of the Bay in the coming years.With new case studies and updated maps, charts, and graphs, the book builds on the analytical power of ten years of experience to offer a new perspective, along with clear, science-based recommendations for the future. For all those who want to know not only how much must be done to save the Bay but what they can do and how they can make a difference, Turning the Tide is an essential source of information.
Author : Tom Pelton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421424762
Looking to the future, Pelton offers a provocative vision of the hard steps that must be taken if we truly want to save the Bay.
Author : Kathleen Connors
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1433997916
The region around the Chesapeake Bay is growing every year. Industries such as seafood and manufacturing contribute to the economy, but tourism continues to be big business for cities near the bay. Readers will visit the active inner harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, and the beautiful beaches of Virginia through vivid photographs and concise descriptions of their famous landmarks and historic sites. With an introduction to the Chesapeake Bay through some of its biggest attractions, readers will encounter the region’s geography, wildlife, and history, adding to curriculum learning. Detailed sidebars will offer fun facts, population statistics, and present even more places to explore around the Chesapeake Bay.
Author : James L. Foster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1439673993
Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that, come January, icebreakers may be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay are iced up, the flow of commerce is impeded. At the turn of the nineteenth century, with the center of the new nation's government established it its arms, a frozen Bay meant that the United States' emergence to a status on par with the foremost nations of the world might be painfully slow. James Foster chronicles the disasters and pitfalls, large and small, that come with the coldest of winters.