It is not surprising to anyone who knows the Bay country that the Chesapeake captured the imagination of Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries," writes Arthur Pierce Middleton in this classic maritime history of the earliest years of Maryland and Virginia. "It was called the 'Noblest Bay in the Universe' in which the whole navies of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands might simultaneously ride at anchor."
"Tobacco Coast" is the history of how the Chesapeake Bay shaped the society and economy of an entire region. Its hundreds of miles of navigable tributaries made adoption of...
It is not surprising to anyone who knows the Bay country that the Chesapeake captured the imagination of Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries,"...
Originally published in 1939, this book spent six months on the national bestseller lists and went through 23 hardcover printings. "A novel written out of love and meticulous observation" ("New York Herald Tribune"), the story recounts the trials and tribulations of a group of Johns Hopkins medical students who boarded at Miss Susie Slagle's house on Biddle Street in Baltimore during the years before World War I.
Originally published in 1939, this book spent six months on the national bestseller lists and went through 23 hardcover printings. "A novel written ou...
Written in the form of a journal by a State Department official during World War II, this book takes readers along on excursions through Washington, D.C., and its environs--the Tidal Basin, Rock Creek Park, and beyond--to experience the rebirth of the season.
Written in the form of a journal by a State Department official during World War II, this book takes readers along on excursions through Washington, D...
-We have wasted our inheritance by improvidence and mismanagement.---William K. Brooks, on the Chesapeake Bay's declining oyster harvests, 1905
The Chesapeake Bay oyster has changed little, if at all, in the century since this popular book was published. But the oyster harvest has fallen to its lowest level on record--from 15 million bushels at the turn of the century to fewer than 100,000 bushels in 1993. What was once the most bountiful source of oysters in the world has become nearly exhausted. More than a century ago, explains Kennedy T. Paynter Jr. in the introduction to the...
-We have wasted our inheritance by improvidence and mismanagement.---William K. Brooks, on the Chesapeake Bay's declining oyster harvests, 1905
-The subject of this book pertains to events, often unpleasant, in the domestic lives of the 17th-century Maryland colonists.---publisher's catalog description, 1938
Marylander Edward Erbery called members of the colony's proprietary assembly -rogues and puppies-; he was tied to an apple tree and received thirty-nine lashes. Jacob Lumbrozo, a Maryland Jew who suggested Christ's miracles were done by -magic, - was imprisoned indefinitely, escaping execution only by the governor's pardon. Rebecca Fowler was accused of using witchcraft to cause her Calvert County neighbors to...
-The subject of this book pertains to events, often unpleasant, in the domestic lives of the 17th-century Maryland colonists.---publisher's...
