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010 $a 2005016598
020 $a0801882966 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)OCM60644712
035 $a(NNC)5571195
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050 00 $aF187.C5$bS36 2006
082 00 $a917.55/180444$222
100 1 $aSchmidt, Susan,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005042167
245 10 $aLandfall along the Chesapeake :$bin the wake of Captain John Smith /$cSusan Schmidt.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2006.
300 $aviii, 247 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index.
520 1 $a"In 2002, Susan Schmidt retraced John Smith's 1608 voyage on the Chesapeake Bay. In Landfall along the Chesapeake, a cruising guide for Chesapeake boaters and a field log for naturalists, Schmidt compares the beauty of ancestral legacy and childhood memory to her observations on a 100-day voyage in a 22-foot boat." "As Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters." "Scientists explain the Bay's nitrogen overload, water-level rise, anoxia, Pfiesteria, Kepone, and the Ghost Fleet. Native American chiefs discuss their heritage then and now. Ashore, Schmidt walks on her ancestor's farm, now a military chemical dump, and climbs her grandfather's lighthouse. Despite her despair at bad air quality and diminished fisheries, and her dread of high wind and rough seas, Schmidt expresses gratitude for small-town hospitality and the navigation skills her father taught her."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aSmith, John,$d1580-1631$xTravel$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
600 10 $aSchmidt, Susan,$d1949-$xTravel$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
650 0 $aSailing$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
650 0 $aNatural history$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
651 0 $aChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)$xHistory, Local.
651 0 $aChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)$xEnvironmental conditions.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005016598.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hF187.C5$iS36 2006