Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era

by Arthur Pierce Middleton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801825342
• ISBN13: 9780801825347
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

History of Chesapeake before the Revolution

Classic and authoritative. Buy it and keep it for your grandchildren.

Really great

This is one of the best books on the eastern seaboard from the earliest of times. Easy to read and terrific research. If you are writing anything about this time and place, this book is a necessity.