The Disappearing Islands Of The Chesapeake
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The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake
Author | : William B. Cronin |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2005-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801874351 |
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An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Island Life
Author | : Jay Fleming |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0997746815 |
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Photographer Jay Fleming turned his attention to Smith and Tangier Islands - the Chesapeake Bay's last inhabited 'water-locked' islands. Fleming has made countless trips to the islands to document the unique way of life and environment that have been shaped by isolation and the waters of the Chesapeake. This collection of photographs will fill the pages of Fleming's second book, Island Life. This body work comes at an important time for the islands, as their populations continue to decline and the unrelenting forces of the bay threaten the working working waterfronts that have sustained the communities for centuries. Fleming hopes that his photography will immerse readers in the Island Life and capture a crucial moment in time for the Chesapeake's most unique communities.
Vanishing Islands
Author | : Frances Kolarek |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078844901X |
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This lighthearted account of the imperiled Bay islands focuses on the sociology of these isolated islands in the second half of the twentieth century. It captures the beauty and spirit of the islands and people. K4901HB - $22.00
Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands
Author | : Andrew T. Eldredge |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738511579 |
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In 1848, the railroad extended to Cape Cod to serve the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. By 1887, fourteen of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod were connected by the railroad. For a short time, even the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard had railroad lines. As the highways expanded in the years following World War II, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation. By 1959, year-round Cape Cod passenger service had been discontinued. Today, many miles of track have been removed to accommodate recreational bike paths.Using hundreds of historic images, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands illustrates the rich heritage of passenger and freight rail transportation on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Mainland connections once involved transfer between ship and rail at wharves in Provincetown, Hyannis, and Woods Hole. Since 1935, trains have crossed the Cape Cod Canal on the world's second longest vertical-lift bridge.
The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
Author | : Scott Dawson |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439669945 |
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New archeological discoveries may finally solve the greatest mystery of Colonial America in this history of Roanoke and Hatteras Islands. Established on what is now North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, the Roanoke Colony was intended to be England’s first permanent settlement in North America. But in 1590, the entire population disappeared without a trace. The only clue to their fate was the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree. For centuries, the legend of the Lost Colony has captivated imaginations. Now, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, working with the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have uncovered tantalizing clues to the fate of the colony. In The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.
Beautiful Swimmers
Author | : William W. Warner |
Publsiher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0316923265 |
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Combines a natural history of the Atlantic blue crab with an historical and ecological study of Chesapeake Bay and a chronicle of the commercial crabber's year
Smith Island Chesapeake Bay
Author | : Frances W. Dize |
Publsiher | : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Smith Island (Md. and Va.) |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4409817 |
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Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay is the account of an uncommon place and the uncommon people who choose to live in its isolated environment. It is the history of the islanders' struggle to survive the ravages of nature and the depredations of enemy forces as well as a study of island tradition and the possibilities for the future of the islanders' unique culture.
The Melting World
Author | : Christopher White |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781250028853 |
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Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they—and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice—will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.