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Can I read Chesapeake requiem : a year with the watermen of vanishing Tangier Island on EtoBox?
Chesapeake requiem : a year with the watermen of vanishing Tangier Island by Swift, Earl is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chesapeake requiem : a year with the watermen of vanishing Tangier Island about?
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 "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." ' Hampton Sides - "POWERFUL. A tale of our time, movingly told." ' Bill McKibben - "GORGEOUS. A truly remarkable book." ' Beth Macy - "WONDERFUL, PoeTIC, STIRRING. An elegy to a disappearing way of life." ' Callum Roberts - "IMMERSIVE, SENSITIVE, AND CLEAR-EYED. Swift captures the grain of the place." Garden & Gun - "AN IMPORTANT BOOK." ' Library Journal 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
Who reads Chesapeake requiem : a year with the watermen of vanishing Tangier Island?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Swift, Earl
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062661401
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, History, Travel
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (724 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14