Name: Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, Hardcover/Earl Swift
Brand: Dey Street Books
Price: 165.99 RON
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Contributor(s): Author: Earl Swift A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." -- Hampton Sides - "GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK." -- Beth Macy - "GRIPPING. FANTASTIC." -- Outside - "CAPTIVATING." -- Washington Post - "POWERFUL." -- Bill McKibben - "VIVID. HARROWING AND MOVING." -- Science - "WONDERFUL, POETIC, STIRRING." -- Callum Roberts - "A MASTERFUL NARRATIVE." -- Christian Science Monitor A Washington Post bestseller- An Indie Next List selection - An Amazon and Christian Science Monitor "Best Book of the Month" - One of Esquire 's "Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 (So Far)" and Outside 's "Best New Adventure Books for Fall" - An NPR All Things Considered "Summer Reading List" and Axios "Book Club" pick Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21 st century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by the nation's largest estuary, and a twelve-mile boat trip across often tempestuous water--the same water that for generations has made Tangier's fleet of small fishing boats a chief source for the rightly prized Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and has lent the island its claim to fame as the so