1987, ISBN: 0801835259

[EAN: 9780801835254], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD], CHESAPEAKE BAY, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DELMARVA, DELMA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780801835254], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD], CHESAPEAKE BAY, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DELMARVA, DELMARVABKS, Travel|United States |South|South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV, Jacket, "In bay country, where land and water mingle, we are never far from cycles of coming and going. What is it about the sight of migrating Canada geese that creates in us a sudden, inexplicable yearning? What compels the eels to leave their muddy Chesapeake homes each fall to head for the Sargasso Sea, where they will mate and die - and what brings their newly hatched young back to inhabit every rivulet in the estuary? 'We bay dwellers,' writes Tom Horton, 'move in a far richer and more extensive matrix of subtle relations and ancient connections with nature than we can explain or admit.' Like virtually all of Maryland's land and water, Tom Horton's book inclines toward the Chesapeake Bay. An native of the Eastern Shore, Horton has written about the environment for the past ten years in the Baltimore Sun. He is a writer who can mention herring and Proust in the same breath - and charm readers with no previous affection for either. His stories of oysters and sea nettles, elms and rivers, barrier islands and urban crabs, farmers and watermen, always reach beyond the local to the most universal of subjects. Not all of our connections to the bay are so pleasant to contemplate.Bay Country is nature writing at its most informed and informative." Illustrated. xvi + 223 pages with index. Book is in VERY GOOD condition. Dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition., Books<

1987, ISBN: 0801835259

[EAN: 9780801835254], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD], CHESAPEAKE BAY, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DELMARVA, DELMA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780801835254], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD], CHESAPEAKE BAY, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DELMARVA, DELMARVABKS, Travel|United States|South|South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV, Jacket, "In bay country, where land and water mingle, we are never far from cycles of coming and going. What is it about the sight of migrating Canada geese that creates in us a sudden, inexplicable yearning? What compels the eels to leave their muddy Chesapeake homes each fall to head for the Sargasso Sea, where they will mate and die - and what brings their newly hatched young back to inhabit every rivulet in the estuary? 'We bay dwellers,' writes Tom Horton, 'move in a far richer and more extensive matrix of subtle relations and ancient connections with nature than we can explain or admit.' Like virtually all of Maryland's land and water, Tom Horton's book inclines toward the Chesapeake Bay. An native of the Eastern Shore, Horton has written about the environment for the past ten years in the Baltimore Sun. He is a writer who can mention herring and Proust in the same breath - and charm readers with no previous affection for either. His stories of oysters and sea nettles, elms and rivers, barrier islands and urban crabs, farmers and watermen, always reach beyond the local to the most universal of subjects. Not all of our connections to the bay are so pleasant to contemplate.Bay Country is nature writing at its most informed and informative." Illustrated. xvi + 223 pages with index. Book is in VERY GOOD condition. Dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition., Books<

ISBN: 9780801835254

"Must reading in a city that reinvented itself by seeking itsharbor roots."--Baltimore Magazine."Mr. Horton--a Baltimore journalist who has developed a devoted but hitherto local followin… Mehr…

"Must reading in a city that reinvented itself by seeking itsharbor roots."--Baltimore Magazine."Mr. Horton--a Baltimore journalist who has developed a devoted but hitherto local following--ventures into a small, distinguished circle of nature writers. Fans of Aldo Leopold, John McPhee and Sigurd Olson won't be disappointed. This is not merely a book for those who already know the Chesapeake, although they will be enchanted by Tom Horton's vast knowledge, narrative skills and eye for detail. Like the true bay native he is, Mr. Horton uses the Chesapeake as a limitless resource from which to harvest a great bounty of observations about politics, nature, and human beings."--New York Times Book Review. "Sailing down the Chesapeake in this book is bracing, for Horton is knowledgeable, thoughtful, full of wonder about the natural world and outspoken... As Smith Islanders might say, it's a right smart' book."--Washington Post. Maryland Paperback Bookshelf. Media > Book, [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press]<