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Harp / Horton

The Nanticoke

Portrait of a Chesapeake River

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9057-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2008
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Once again marrying photography with prose, longtime collaborators David W. Harp and Tom Horton capture the natural beauty and rich history of the Nanticoke River, one of the Chesapeake’s least known waterways.

Despite rampant development and agricultural abuse, the Nanticoke remains one of the most pristine rivers of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, looking much as it did when Captain John Smith first sailed its waters four hundred years ago. While parts of the river drain stormwater off the flat fields of the Delmarva Peninsula, most of the Nanticoke serves no purpose except natural beauty. Its meandering waters and fertile wetlands sustain a remarkable diversity of life. The Nanticoke is home to beavers, otters, woodpeckers, freshwater fish and shellfish, watergrasses, bog orchids, bald cypresses, and the rare Atlantic white cedar.

More than one hundred color photographs reveal unspoiled waters rarely glimpsed other than by Native Americans, tugboat captains, naturalists, and commercial waterman. The Nanticoke makes clear the urgency of preserving this vital but fragile ecosystem.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780801890574
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-8018-9057-4
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2008
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2008
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 980 g
  • Seiten: 144
  • Format (B x H x T): 253 x 257 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

David W. Harp saved to acquire his first camera at the age of 12 and has been taking pictures ever since. Former staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun Magazine, Harp has received awards from the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association and the National Press Photographers Association. His photography is regularly featured in national environmental and lifestyle magazines.

Tom Horton reported on the Chesapeake Bay for the Baltimore Sun for fifteen years before becoming a freelancer in 1987. Available from Johns Hopkins, Horton's first book, Bay Country, won the John Burroughs Medal for our nation's best natural history book of the year. David W. Harp and Tom Horton's previous books, Water's Way: Life along the Chesapeake and The Great Marsh: An Intimate Journey into a Chesapeake Wetland, are also published by Johns Hopkins.

Preface
1. Rivertops
2. The Confluence
3. Vienna
4. Tuggers
5. Lower River
6. Options
7. 400 Years
8. River Time