Tom Horton

Choptank Odyssey

Celebrating a Great Chesapeake River

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This book of more than 150 vibrant photographs and seven essays depicts the natural history, human history, science, and culture of the Delmarva peninsulas largest river. Explore the Choptank Riverfrom its beginnings at upstream springs and farm ditches to its broad estuary below Cambridge, Marylanddiscover its inhabitants, and learn about the impact of human activity on the natural environment. Generations of watermen and farmers, oystermen and oyster shuckers, crabbers and crab pickers, commercial fishermen, and a turkler are just a few of the folks you'll become acquainted with. Additionally, retired biologist and aquatic scientist Nick Ca… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: David W. Harp (Fotogr.)

ISBN: 978-0-7643-5000-9
EAN: 9780764350009
Produktnummer: 18146607
Verlag: Schiffer Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B20.6 cm 918 g
Gewicht: 918

Über den Autor

David W. Harp is the staff photographer for The Chesapeake Bay Journal. He co-produces Voices from the Edge, a continuing video series about the fecundity and variety of life along the edge of land and water, with Tom Horton. Tom Horton reported on the Chesapeake Bay for the Baltimore Sun for fifteen years before becoming a freelancer in 1987. His first book, Bay Country, won the John Burroughs Medal for our nation’s best natural history book of the year.