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ISBN: 9780062661395

Book Title: Chesapeake Requiem : a Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

Item Length: 9in

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Year: 2018

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1.4in

Author: Earl Swift

Genre: Nature, Travel, Science, Social Science

Topic: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), Animals / Marine Life, Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Customs & Traditions

Item Width: 6in

Item Weight: 22.8 Oz

Number of Pages: 448 Pages

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Bloomberg, Science Friday, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." -- Hampton Sides * "GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK." -- Beth Macy * "GRIPPING. FANTASTIC." -- Outside * "CAPTIVATING." -- Washington Post * "POWERFUL." -- Bill McKibben * "VIVID. HARROWING AND MOVING." -- Science * "A MASTERFUL NARRATIVE." -- Christian Science Monitor * "THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR." -- Stephen L. Carter/Bloomberg 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. Chesapeake Requiem is an intimate look at the island's past, present and tenuous future, by an acclaimed journalist who spent much of the past two years living among Tangier's people, crabbing and oystering with its watermen, and observing its long traditions and odd ways. What emerges is the poignant tale of a world that has, quite nearly, gone by--and a leading-edge report on the coming fate of countless coastal communities.

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Publisher

HarperCollins

ISBN-10

0062661396

ISBN-13

9780062661395

eBay Product ID (ePID)

240039867

Product Key Features

Book Title

Chesapeake Requiem : a Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

Author

Earl Swift

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), Animals / Marine Life, Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year

2018

Genre

Nature, Travel, Science, Social Science

Number of Pages

448 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9in

Item Height

1.4in

Item Width

6in

Item Weight

22.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Sh400.5.C7s95 2018

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One of the most powerful ways to tell the story of global climate change is to tell it local. And this meticulous, compassionate look at the fishermen and their families, who have for generations made a home on a tiny island in Chesapeake Bay, is a vivid portrait of what we are losing--and why we may fail to stop that loss., Swift paints vivid portraits of both the natural environment and the individuals and institutions of this close-knit community. ... Harrowing and moving. ... A well-rounded portrait of a rural community both dependent on and threatened by its natural environment., In a gripping, 400-page tome, Swift gracefully outlines the harsh inevitability of global warming and how the people on its front lines try to keep living their lives in its face. ... Fantastic., A detailed portrait of this distinctive community. .... The dire fate of [Tangier] island runs through Swift's narrative. At its core, though, it's a look at its people., Earl Swift has hit the trifecta sought by all writers of nonfiction but achieved by very few. The book is the fruit of deep-dive, immersive research; it is deftly written, and it raises questions that affect every person on the planet. ... A soulful portrait of a complicated, endangered slice of America., We need a replacement for the tired 'canaries in a coal mine,' and sadly 'fishermen on Tangier Island' will probably do. Fascinating people, clinging loyally to a fascinating and lovely place, even as the waters rise--this is a tale of our time, movingly told. Perhaps it will inspire some of us living safe on higher ground to more action on behalf of those at risk., This is a powerful book. We need a replacement for the tired 'canaries in a coal mine,' and sadly 'fishermen on Tangier Island' will probably do. Fascinating people, clinging loyally to a fascinating and lovely place, even as the waters rise--Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem is a tale of our time, movingly told. Perhaps it will inspire some of us living safe on higher ground to more action on behalf of those at risk., Swift does such a good, interesting job of telling the stories of the people who live on this island. ... He really gets [the] hard questions about the reality of climate change and ... how we make decisions as a country and as a community about what we value., An important book, capturing macro changes through microcosm. ... A moving account of a vanishing place., Immersive, sensitive, and clear-eyed. [Swift] captures the grain of the place, all its nicks and whorls. ... A mournfulness accumulates as we settle in to this beautifully peculiar pixel of America, knowing as we do that beneath those tidal rhythms ticks a very grim clock., Vivid and rich. ... A model for what serious reportage should be. ... The best nonfiction book of 2018.

2018

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2018-024659

Intended Audience

Trade

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