Working the Water
Author : Jay Fleming
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780997746808
Author : Jay Fleming
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780997746808
Author : Alice Jane Lippson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801883378
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 : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812986288
In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one man’s dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Chesapeake “Another of James Michener’s great mines of narrative, character and lore.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . An emotionally and intellectually appealing book.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Michener’s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.”—Associated Press
Author : Jay Fleming
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780997746815
Photographer Jay Fleming turned his attention to Smith and Tangier Islands - the Chesapeake Bay's last inhabited 'water-locked' islands. Fleming has made countless trips to the islands to document the unique way of life and environment that have been shaped by isolation and the waters of the Chesapeake. This collection of photographs will fill the pages of Fleming's second book, Island Life. This body work comes at an important time for the islands, as their populations continue to decline and the unrelenting forces of the bay threaten the working working waterfronts that have sustained the communities for centuries. Fleming hopes that his photography will immerse readers in the Island Life and capture a crucial moment in time for the Chesapeake's most unique communities.
Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801874352
An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author : John Hurt Whitehead
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780870333743
Photographs depict the daily life of Chesapeake Bay fisherman and are accompanied by the comments and observations of the watermen
Author : Renee Brooks Catacalos
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1421426897
Do you want to join a CSA, but don’t know where to start? Are you wondering what the difference between Certified Organic and Biodynamic produce is? This guide explains the many ways to participate in the local food movement in the Chesapeake. There was a time when most food was local, whether you lived on a farm or bought your food at a farmers market in the city. Exotic foods like olives, spices, and chocolate shipped in from other parts of the world were considered luxuries. Now, most food that Americans eat is shipped from somewhere else, and eating local is considered by some to be a luxury. Renee Brooks Catacalos is here to remind us that eating local is easier—and more rewarding—than we may think. There is an abundance of food all around us, found across the acres and acres of fields and pastures, orchards and forests, mile upon winding mile of rivers and streams, ocean coastline, and the amazing Chesapeake Bay. In The Chesapeake Table, Catacalos examines the powerful effect of eating local in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Hooked on the local food movement from its early days, Catacalos opens the book by revisiting a personal challenge to only buy, prepare, and eat food grown within a 150-mile radius of her home near Washington, DC. From her in-depth, on-the-ground study of food systems in the region, Catacalos offers practical advice for adopting a locavore diet and getting involved in various entry points to food pathways, from shopping at your local farmers market to buying a community-supported agriculture share. She also includes recipes for those curious about how they can make their own more environmentally conscious food choices. Introducing readers to the vast edible resources of the Chesapeake region, Catacalos focuses on the challenges of environmental and economic sustainability, equity and diversity in the farming and food professions, and access and inclusion for local consumers of all income levels, ethnicities, and geographies. Touching on everything from farm-based breweries and distilleries to urban hoop house farms to grass-fed beef, The Chesapeake Table celebrates the people working hard to put great local food on our plates.
Author : Howard R. Ernst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780742523517
The USA touts Chesapeake Bay as its premier environmental restoration programme, yet the Bay remains in poor condition.
Author : Tom Pelton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1421424754
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 : Susan Schmidt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801882968
As Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters.