This Was Chesapeake Bay

Author : Robert H. Burgess
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This was Chesapeake Bay written by Robert H. Burgess and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1963 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a collection of true accounts of the Chesapeake gathered from the lips and memories of the people who experienced them, from clipping files and ship registers, and from the author's own extensive collection -- people and places, shipbuilding, steamboating, oyster dredging, natural history -- the whole panoply of Bay lore.

Author : Alice Jane Lippson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801891981
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Chesapeake Bay written by Alice Jane Lippson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best-written and best-illustrated guide ever about a North American tidal estuary. It is the model for all future coastal nature guides.” —Whole Earth Review 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. “Handsome, generously illustrated . . . All of the Bay’s richness is catalogued here.” —The Washington Post Book World “A story book, a field guide and a reference work, and anyone interested in fishing, ecology, or our bay should own it.” —The Baltimore Sun “The region’s quintessential field and reference guide.” —Chesapeake Life Magazine “One of the most popular, well written, and useful guides to the Chesapeake.” —Northeastern Naturalist

Author : Jamie L. H. Goodall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714116X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars written by Jamie L. H. Goodall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles.

Author : Howard R. Ernst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461636752
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fight for the Bay written by Howard R. Ernst and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy of compromise over confrontation and that has fueling a 'political dead zone' where political leaders posture but fail to make the hard decisions needed to achieve real improvement in the Bay's health. While blunt in his evaluation of past and present failures to restore the Bay, Ernst believes that there is still time to turn the restoration effort around and sets out new 'dark green' strategies to do so. In the concluding chapter, five long-time bay activists provide first-person accounts of their battles and hopes for the future. Hailed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as 'a must read for anyone concerned about environmental protection,' this challenging book provides a wake-up call for everyone concerned about the future of the Chesapeake Bay and other ecological treasures through out America.

Author : Lytton John Musselman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421406969
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plants of the Chesapeake Bay written by Lytton John Musselman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Place Winner of the Design and Effectiveness Award of the Washington Publishers Buttonbush. Hercules' Club. Panic Grass. Tearthumb. Beach Spurge. Sea Rocket. Ladies' Tresses. These name a few of the wild and wonderful plants found in this quick reference guide to plants of the Chesapeake Bay. Written by wetland scientists with decades of experience in the Bay's waterways, this guide includes detailed descriptions and beautiful photographs of the plants most commonly found in the Chesapeake Bay. Grasses, trees, wildflowers, aquatic vegetation—if it grows in the tidal or nearshore regions of the Bay, chances are it is in this book, the features of which include • over 200 illustrations • information on more than 100 species of plants • clear, accessible descriptions of each plant accompanied by close-up photographs for quick, accurate identification • discussion of where to find each plant, how they reproduce, and how humans use them • easy-to-follow organization by habitat The guide's vivid text and photographs make the wide array of plants along the waters, marshes, and shorelines of the Chesapeake Bay easy to identify and wondrous to behold. Its compact, portable design encourages naturalists, local residents, boaters, researchers, and the curious-minded alike to throw the guide in their pack and explore the botanical bounty of the Chesapeake Bay.

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0812986288
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A. Aubrey Bodine
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780870335624
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country written by A. Aubrey Bodine and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning array of 286 digitally restored photographs by the great Maryland photographer chronicles life in five distinct regions of Maryland--Baltimore and its environs, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Southern Maryland and Annapolis, and Western Maryland--originally published in the Baltimore Sun between 1924 and 1970.

Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874352
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake written by William B. Cronin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Author : Murdy Eo
Publisher : Smithsonian
ISBN 13 : 9781588340450
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FISHES CHESAPEAKE BAY PB written by Murdy Eo and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive treatise enables users to identify 267 species of fish found in Chesapeake Bay through a system of keys to the orders, to the families within orders, and to the species within families. Written by biologists affiliated with either academic institutions or the National Science Foundation, it offers illustrations from the Smithsonian Institution archives.

Author : Jay Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997746808
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working the Water written by Jay Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: