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An Island Out of Time : A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
Although the archipelago known as Smith Island sits in Chesapeake Bay, just off Maryland's eastern shore, it is in some ways a place lost in time and space. Lacking a police force, a high school, or a hospital, it still carries the flavor of another era. People earn a tough living from crabbing, which means 18-hour work days for six months of the year, and they still speak a heavily accented language that some scholars believe dates back to Elizabethan times. In 1987, Tom Horton, an environmental writer for the Baltimore Sun, moved with his family to this 300-year-old community. This thoughtful, well-written book is his record of the two years they spent there.
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, And the Chesapeake Bay W/Intro By Joh Barth
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.
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If you think Chesapeake Bay cooking is all about the hard- or soft-shelled blue crab—about crab cakes, deviled crab, crab soufflés, crab-stuffed mushroom caps, ham and crab imperial, crabmeat curry, crab fluffs, crab and artichoke dip, crab loaf, crab quiche, and soft-shell crab sandwiches—you have another think coming. This isn't to say that the first 60 or so pages of Chesapeake Bay Cooking aren't dedicated to the blue crab. They are. But then John Shields moves right into oysters, then seafood, soups and stews, chicken and game birds, meat and game, and on all the way to desserts, pickles, and preserves.
Companion to a public television series, Chesapeake Bay Cooking is part travelogue, part history of a region's cooking, part call to environmentalist arms, part paean to childhood past, and part plain old cookbook devoted to the food products and cooking styles indigenous to the Chesapeake Bay.
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Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future
Crassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these impossibly abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters. But the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures and overconsumption decimated the population by the end of the twentieth century. While Virginia turned to bottom-leasing, passionate debate continues in Maryland among scientists and oystermen whether aquaculture or wild harvesting is the better way forward. Today, boutique oyster farming in the Bay is sustainably meeting the culinary demand of a new generation of connoisseurs. With careful research and interviews with experts, author Kate Livie presents this dynamic story and a glimpse of what the future may hold.
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Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide
Acclaimed as the ultimate guide to uncrowded anchorages, Cruising the Chesapeake is the reference of choice among sailors and powerboaters seeking to avoid the beaten path. This new Third Edition has been expanded to include coverage of the Atlantic coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, including Delaware Bay. Readers get: A cruise planner for short or long itineraries; An expansive catalog of GPS coordinates; Major updates to all piloting and shoreside facilities.
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Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay
The only comprehensive field guide to the Chesapeake’s fishes, this book is an indispensable resource for both anglers and students of the Bay. Vivid illustrations by Val Kells complement the expertise of researchers Edward O. Murdy and John A. Musick. They describe fishes that inhabit waters ranging from low-salinity estuaries to the point where the Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Key features of this field guide include • full-color illustrations of more than 200 species• text that is presented adjacent to illustrations for easy reference • detailed descriptions of physical characteristics, range, occurrence in the Bay, reproduction, diet, and statistics from fisheries research • spot illustrations that highlight critical features of certain fish • illustrations of juveniles when they look different from adults • appendices that include identification keys
Formatted as a compact field guide for students, scientists, researchers, and fishermen, Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay should be a standard passenger on any boat that plies the Chesapeake’s waters.
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Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses: Illustrated Map & Guide
The illustrated map and guide to all the lighthouses of New Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland & Virginia. • Completely revised and updated, with new cartography, authoritative text and many new illustrations. • 71 standing and 103 "lost" lighthouses located on a detailed coastal map. • 29 original watercolor illustrations--21 newly commissioned. • History & description of each lighthouse. • Directions to each light or the best viewing spots. • Lighthouse & maritime museums listed and located on map. • Directory of lighthouse cruises. • Intriguing true tales of lighthouses. • Paper, 24x36 in. folded to 4x9 in.
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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. [ Photo ]
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Working the Chesapeake: Waterman on the Bay
To learn firsthand, from their own mouths and aboard their own boats, more about the lives of Chesapeake watermen, Mark Jacoby went out with them in all seasons and in all weathers. He followed Wadey Murphy in his pursuit of crabs, Ben Waters in his hunt for oysters. He joined fishermen as they tended their pound nets, their fyke nets, their eel pots. Jacoby followed a year's seasons of working the water, devoting a chapter thirteen in all to the major types of fisheries in the Bay.
The book begins with pound netting finfish in early May and finishes with diving for oysters in late March. Though his initial purpose was to detail commercial fishing methods in the Chesapeake, he ultimately shows us much more: the look of the water at dawn in a rising northeast wind, the sound of a waterman's voice cast in accents from our Colonial past as he speaks about his life, his problems, his prospects for the future. In short, Working the Chesapeake gives us the people and places that define the region's special character, not only the watermen's techniques but, in brief glimpses, their view of what may be a disappearing world. Whatever the future holds for Bay watermen, Working the Chesapeake has captured a moment in their history.
Through carefully rendered interviews and astute observations Mark Jacoby has preserved for us a slice of life, a slice of time. His descriptions are embellished by the drawings of Neil Harpe, a well-known Chesapeake Bay artist who has a special interest in workboats and watermen.
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Working the Water by Jay Fleming
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"Working the Water" by Jay Fleming is a visual narrative of those individuals whose livelihood is directly dependent upon the Chesapeake Bay, America's largest estuary. The book comprises photographs of seasoned watermen, scenic seascapes, weathered workboats and bay bounty, a true and complete depiction of Chesapeake Bay life.
Fleming has spent the past three years actively documenting the fascinating and rapidly changing way of life of those who make their living off of the Bay's resources. He has travelled thousands of miles around the Bay's watershed and photographed hundreds of individuals and dozens of fisheries with the goal of documenting all aspects of the Bay-influenced industries.
Organized chronologically by season, "Working the Water" illustrates a behind-the-scenes view of commercial fisheries not visible to the average seafood consumer. From underwater shots of the fish in their natural habitat to images of them being harvested, and ultimately processed, Jay's collection of photographs creates an all-encompassing vignette of the seafood industry that is sure to evoke a newfound appreciation for the seafood on our plates.
Jay's flagship book is informative and aesthetically pleasing and is relevant to the seafood enthusiast, the history buff, the biologist, photography fan and Chesapeake Bay lover alike.
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