Window on the Chesapeake: The Bay, Its People and Places

By Wendy Mitman Clarke

The Chesapeake Bay Region, which spans parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, endures to unite an awe-inspiring landscape and rich history with a collection of people and cultures, equally... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917376544
• ISBN13: 9780917376542
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Mariners Museum
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A fresh new look at some old stuff

Those who know and love the Chesapeake and its tributaries can never get enough reading about it, its people, and its vanishing ways. They will get all that and more in this one, because it is viewed through the loving eyes of a fine, articulate writer. Along the way, even old Bay hands will pick up lots of new information about people and places they thought they knew. And it's done up in short, article-length segments so that you can put it on your night-stand, read one, fall asleep, and look forward to the next night As for the writing, start out with the story about "Walter Coles", then start at the beginning of the book, and read that one again. 'Nuff said.