Chesapeake requiem

a year with the waterman of vanishing Tangier Island
Earl Swift
Book - 2018

Presents a portrait of Chesapeake Bay's two-hundred-year-old Tangier Island crabbing community, describing their isolated and vanishing way of life while explaining how rising sea levels will render the island uninhabitable within twenty years.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swift, Earl, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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