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In eight engaging chapters, this book portrays the steamboat era (1813-1963) on the Chesapeake, which matched in glamour and excitement the ... More

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The original schooner Sultana was built in Boston in 1767 and sold to the British navy the next year. She was the smallest schooner ever to serve in ... More

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BUYBOATS ARE PART OF THE CHESAPEAKE'S MARITIME HERITAGE. THEY EVOLVED FROM THE SAILING SCHOONERS, BUGEYES, PUNGIES AND LOG CANOES SO FAMILIAR IN THE ... More

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For ages men have explored its shores and harvested the incredible bounty of its aquatic life, but also they have had to suffer the consequences of ... More

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Here is a collection of true accounts of the Chesapeake gathered from the lips and memories of the people who experienced them, from clipping files ... More

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"The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line ... More

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Here is a collection of true accounts of the Chesapeake gathered from the lips and memories of the people who experienced them, from clipping files ... More

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For ages men have explored its shores and harvested the incredible bounty of its aquatic life, but also they have had to suffer the consequences of ... More

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In the 1900s, skipjacks were a familiar fixture in every port on the Chesapeake. Their captains and crews were tough, hardy souls who earned a living ... More

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This story of the schooners and those who sailed them takes the reader from the handy colonial schooner through the search for speed that led ... More

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All but forgotten, buyboats served for nearly a century throughout the Bay region as floating middlemen buying fresh catch off smaller workboats and ... More

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In the 1900s, skipjacks were a familiar fixture in every port on the Chesapeake. Their captains and crews were tough, hardy souls who earned a living ... More

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In Skipjack, Christopher White spends a pivotal year with three memorable captains as they battle man and nature to control the fate of their island ... More

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Chesapeake is an Algonquian word meaning "great shellfish bay," and for decades, the oyster was the undisputed king of Chesapeake Bay shellfish. ... More

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Harvested for food, harnessed for power, and home to more than 3,600 species of plants, fish, and animals, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries ... More

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High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore Features such famous characters as Joseph Wheland, Capt. William Kidd, Capt. Richard Ingle, ... More

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Clara Ann Simmons moved to Maryland's Eastern Shore more than fifty years ago and marveled at the abundance of rivers and creeks and bays. A writer ... More

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The Chesapeake Bay has been home to many unique craft designed to work the estuary. Beginning with the Native Americans and continuing to this day, ... More

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The Shipwreck Diving Series offers detailed descriptions of shipwrecks and presents divers with a variety of diving options. Lavishly illustrated, ... More

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"Dark Noon" is the mesmerizing re-creation of a fateful day at sea. It is also a story of the postwar American dream as experienced in the fishing ... More

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Cudahy begins with a history of the Circle Line and its forerunners and erstwhile competitors in the around-Manhattan sightseeing business. Next, he ... More

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This book tells the story of river boating in the west before the invention of the steamboat. Recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that ran ... More

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For more than 200 years, sloop-rigged sailing craft carried the bulk of the commerce on the Hudson River, helping to make New York America's premier ... More

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This fascinating volume traces the evolution of shipping through the drama of ships sinking from collisions, storms, torpedoes, and groundings--from ... More

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