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Landfall Along the Chesapeake:

In the Wake of Captain John Smith
  • ISBN-13: 9780801882968
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Susan Schmidt
  • Price: AUD $77.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2006
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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In 2002, Susan Schmidt retraced John Smith's 1608 voyage on the Chesapeake Bay. In Landfall along the Chesapeake she recounts her hundred-day, 2,500-mile, mostly solo adventure navigating a small boat. Her daily ship's log weaves history and science, weather and seamanship. As she circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past four 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; inport 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, nowa 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. 3 halftones, 3 line drawings.

Introduction: Waking up John SmithThe James RiverJamestownChickahominy RiverDownriver to Hampton RoadsHeading Out: The Eastern ShoreCape HenryCherrystone CreekThe Lower ShoreTangierCrisfieldNanticoke RiverBishops HeadHooper Island PassageChoptank RiverThe Tred AvonOxford to St. MichaelsWye IslandKent NarrowsChester RiverChester River to Bohemia RiverHavre de GraceTurning South: The Western ShoreGunpowder Peninsula and Pooles IslandBaltimoreAnnapolisDeale to Patuxent RiverSolomonsWashingtonPotomac RiverReedvilleRoad TripDividing CreekFleets BayIndian CreekRappahannock RiverCarters CreekPiankatank RiverMobjack BayYork RiverMattaponi RiverAylettWalkerton and WerowocomocoAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex

""Weaving history, environmental concerns, and personal memoir, Landfall along the Chesapeake should find a welcome place on many bookshelves.""

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