Landfall Along the Chesapeake: In the Wake of Captain John Smith

by Susan Schmidt

Book Overview

In 2002, Susan Schmidt retraced John Smith's 1608 voyage on the Chesapeake Bay. In Landfall along the Chesapeake, a cruising guide for Chesapeake boaters and a field log for naturalists, Schmidt compares the beauty of ancestral legacy and childhood memory to her observations on a 100-day voyage in a 22-foot boat.

As she circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882966
• ISBN13: 9780801882968
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher