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Landfall along the Chesapeake : in the wake of Captain John Smith / Susan Schmidt.

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"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 Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters."
"Scientists explain the Bay's nitrogen overload, water-level rise, anoxia, Pfiesteria, Kepone, and the Ghost Fleet. Native American chiefs discuss their heritage then and now. Ashore, Schmidt walks on her ancestor's farm, now a military chemical dump, and climbs her grandfather's lighthouse. Despite her despair at bad air quality and diminished fisheries, and her dread of high wind and rough seas, Schmidt expresses gratitude for small-town hospitality and the navigation skills her father taught her."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0801882966
  • ISBN: 9780801882968
  • Physical Description: viii, 247 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.
Subject: Schmidt, Susan, 1949- > Travel > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Smith, John, 1580-1631 > Travel > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Natural history > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Sailing > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Description and travel.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Environmental conditions.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History, Local.

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5208 . ‡a"As Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters."
5208 . ‡a"Scientists explain the Bay's nitrogen overload, water-level rise, anoxia, Pfiesteria, Kepone, and the Ghost Fleet. Native American chiefs discuss their heritage then and now. Ashore, Schmidt walks on her ancestor's farm, now a military chemical dump, and climbs her grandfather's lighthouse. Despite her despair at bad air quality and diminished fisheries, and her dread of high wind and rough seas, Schmidt expresses gratitude for small-town hospitality and the navigation skills her father taught her."--Jacket.
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