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Chesapeake requiem : a year with the waterman of vanishing Tangier Island / Earl Swift.
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 21st 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 softshell crab capital of the world. Yet for all of its long history, and despite its tenacity, Tangier is disappearing. The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave. It has lost two-thirds of its land since 1850, and still its shoreline retreats by fifteen feet a year—meaning this storied place will likely succumb first among U.S. towns to the effects of climate change. Experts reckon that, barring heroic intervention by the federal government, islanders could be forced to abandon their home within twenty-five years. Meanwhile, the graves of their forebears are being sprung open by encroaching tides, and the conservative and deeply religious Tangiermen ponder the end times. -- amazon.com
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062661395
- ISBN: 0062661396
- ISBN: 9780062661401
- ISBN: 006266140X
- Physical Description: 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dey Street, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-417) and index. |
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| Subject: | Crabbing > Virginia > Tangier Island Blue crab > Virginia > Tangier Island Tangier Island (Va.) |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Easton Main Library | 639.56 S977c (Text) | 31901004265379 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | 639.56 (Text) | 33062009057283 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
