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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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Life along the inner coast ; a naturalist's guide to the sounds, inlets, rivers, and intracoastal waterway from Norfolk to Key West
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ISBN: 0807898597 9780807898598 9780807833032 0807833037 9798890876485 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the ""inner coast""--the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys--aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, Life along the Inner Coast is a guidebook to the plants, animals, and habitats found in one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet.This dense system of waterways contains an incredible range of salinity levels, from fresh to brackish to oceanic, and is host to flora and fauna

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