Chesapeake Reflections

Author : J H Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625842732
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Reflections written by J H Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man celebrates and laments his family’s connection to a disappearing paradise of natural wildlife and beauty on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Between the Indian and Dividing Creeks, near the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, sits a parcel of land called Bluff Point. Like most bay-front villages, the bountiful resources and majestic landscape of this area that once sustained watermen and sportsmen alike have been depleted as over-harvesting, poaching, pollution and continued development have taken their toll, threatening the very legacy of its people. J. H. Hall’s family first settled on this land shortly after the Civil War, where they maintained a tradition of farming, fishing and crabbing throughout the twentieth century. Hall’s words flow as splendidly as the tides in this collection of personal reminisces and local and natural history honoring the lives of the watermen before him and the uncertainty surrounding those today.

Author : Ken Carter
Publisher : Amantha Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780962879340
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Reflections written by Ken Carter and published by Amantha Pub. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1990 the author sailed his schooner "Delphina" from the Florida Keys to the Chesapeake Bay. On his boat & bicycle, he visited over 25 areas, including remote communities where visitors seldom travel. From the first page of this entertaining book, the reader will feel like a welcome guest aboard "Delphina". Written in an easy style & full of humor, CHESAPEAKE REFLECTIONS is rich in interesting historical details of the towns & cities he visited in Maryland & Virginia. The warmth & friendliness of the Bay-area residents he met shine through the many conversations recounted in the book's lovely dialogue & leave the reader wanting to meet them personally. As the title implies, the author also gives the reader thoughts to consider as the journey progresses. Chesapeake Bay shares characteristics with other areas of our diverse environment & the reader is led to reflect on some of these parallels. CHESAPEAKE REFLECTIONS will be enjoyed by armchair travelers, boaters, cyclists, tourists & all those who would like to take a different look at Chesapeake Bay. The journey in the book is not the typical trip in a travelogue, but rather a trip of discovery full of amusing surprises.

Author : Barclay Sheaks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941376006
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stretching the Eyes' Distance written by Barclay Sheaks and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Bradburn
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931703
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Virginia written by Douglas Bradburn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a younger generation of scholars who are building on, but also criticizing and moving beyond, the work of the so-called Chesapeake School of social history that dominated the historiography of the region in the 1970s and 1980s. Employing a variety of methodologies, analytical strategies, and types of evidence, these essays explore a wide range of topics and offer a fresh look at the early religious, political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the colony. Contributors Douglas Bradburn, Binghamton University, State University of New York * John C. Coombs, Hampden-Sydney College * Victor Enthoven, Netherlands Defense Academy * Alexander B. Haskell, University of California Riverside * Wim Klooster, Clark University * Philip Levy, University of South Florida * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent * Edward DuBois Ragan, Valentine Richmond History Center * Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton * Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University * Lorena S. Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Author : Audrey Horning
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610736
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland in the Virginian Sea written by Audrey Horning and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation. Focusing on the Ulster Plantation in the north of Ireland and the Jamestown settlement in the Chesapeake, she challenges the notion that Ireland merely served as a testing ground for British expansion into North America. Horning instead analyzes the people, financial networks, and information that circulated through and connected English plantations on either side of the Atlantic. In addition, Horning explores English colonialism from the perspective of the Gaelic Irish and Algonquian societies and traces the political and material impact of contact. The focus on the material culture of both locales yields a textured specificity to the complex relationships between natives and newcomers while exposing the lack of a determining vision or organization in early English colonial projects.

Author : M. Dantas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230611117
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Townsmen written by M. Dantas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.

Author : Tom Horton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899198378
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bay Country written by Tom Horton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare combination of insight and infectious good humor mark this poetical collection of land, water, people, and nature. In the traditon of great naturalists, Horton sees the landscape as a departure point from which to explore the universe.

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860786
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers written by Allan Kulikoff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.

Author : Alexander Contee Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections Upon the Late Correspondence Between Mr. Secretary Smith, and Francis James Jackson written by Alexander Contee Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fishery Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: