Chesapeake Gold

Author : Susan Brait
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185173
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Gold written by Susan Brait and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society. With directness and poetic economy Brait takes the reader into the life of the Bay and into the complex relationships that affect oysters and those who make their living from them. Her account weaves easily from the daily work of oystermen to the natural forces that have shaped the Bay, from the experimental culture of oysters by marine biologists to the plans of businessmen who expect to grow and harvest the mollusks on privately owned reefs, from efforts to legislate control of the Bay and its resources to the upper reaches of the Susquehanna River where increasing pollution of the Bay originates from agricultural practices of the Amish and other farmers. These and other disparate elements are gracefully woven into a seamless web that represents the complex wholeness of the Bay itself. Chesapeake Gold is a sensitive portrayal of people and their place, but it is also more. The oystermen and their efforts to maintain their traditional life become a figure for our society's struggle to find an ethic that will serve both man and the natural world that man is apart from and a part of.

Author : Susan Brait
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813132624
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Gold written by Susan Brait and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society. With directness and poetic economy Brait takes the reader into the life of the Bay and into the complex relationships that affect oysters and those who make their living from them. Her account weaves easily from the daily work of oystermen to the natural forces that have shaped.

Author : Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304423344
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoopers Island: Glimpses of the Past written by Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays about events that occurred on Hoopers Island, Maryland, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some concern newsworthy events. Others describe the cultural life of the Island or its connection to America's military history. The final essays are memories of the author's life on Hoopers Island.

Author : Illinois. Department of Trade and Commerce. Division of Insurance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Insurance Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Division of Insurance of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Department of Trade and Commerce. Division of Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Illinois. Dept. of Insurance
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 926 pages
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Total Pages : 894 pages
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Author : John Esten Cooke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher : Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book My Lady Pokahontas written by John Esten Cooke and published by Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1885 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Illinois. Department of Insurance
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Total Pages : 822 pages
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