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Chesapeake gold : man & oyster on the Bay
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ISBN: 0813158850 9780813158853 1322596824 9781322596822 0813132622 Year: 1990 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society.With directness and poetic economy Brait takes the reader into the life of the Bay and into the complex relationships that affect oysters and those who make their living from them. Her account weaves easily from the daily work of oystermen to the natural forces that have shaped

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