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

by Earl Swift

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. 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 isola

Publisher

Dey Street Books

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

434

ISBN

9780062661401