The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay

The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay
Title The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay PDF eBook
Author John Hurt Whitehead
Publisher Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Pages 166
Release 1987-01-01
Genre Photography
ISBN 9780870333743

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Photographs depict the daily life of Chesapeake Bay fisherman and are accompanied by the comments and observations of the watermen

Beautiful Swimmers

Beautiful Swimmers
Title Beautiful Swimmers PDF eBook
Author William W. Warner
Publisher Little Brown
Pages 304
Release 1976
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780316923262

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Combines a natural history of the Atlantic blue crab with an historical and ecological study of Chesapeake Bay and a chronicle of the commercial crabber's year

Working the Water

Working the Water
Title Working the Water PDF eBook
Author Jay Fleming
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016-10-01
Genre
ISBN 9780997746808

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The Oyster Question

The Oyster Question
Title The Oyster Question PDF eBook
Author Christine Keiner
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 356
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 0820337188

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In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.

The Watermen

The Watermen
Title The Watermen PDF eBook
Author James A. Michener
Publisher Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pages 209
Release 2014-04-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 080415161X

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Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener’s The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s classic Chesapeake, this enthralling novel has a unity and a spirit all its own, telling the story of the bay and its wildlife, but especially of the watermen, from their favorite pastimes to their rivalries in hunting, oystering, racing, and fighting. Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly conceived, The Watermen is a narrative and visual feast from one of America’s favorite storytellers. 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

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake
Title The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake PDF eBook
Author William B. Cronin
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 206
Release 2005-06-17
Genre History
ISBN 9780801874352

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An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Chesapeake

Chesapeake
Title Chesapeake PDF eBook
Author James A. Michener
Publisher Dial Press
Pages 1026
Release 2013-12-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0812986288

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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