This guide is a good book for hikers (beginners and above) who want information about day hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes: maps; photos; trail description; mileage; parking info; water and restrooms info; and transit info. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in hiking in the SF Bay Area.

This is an excellent book on the existing lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay, and a must-have for anyone interested in lighthouses.

A chapter is dedicated to each of the remaining lighthouses of the bay, and is teaming with historical facts surrounding the lighthouse in question. Along with wonderful, large color photographs of the lights as they presently exist, many chapters include additional black and white prints of the lighthouses in earlier days.

The introduction is very good and gives a nice overview of the lighthouses and their history in the Chesapeake Bay, and sets the stage for what follows in the book. A general map of the Chesapeake Bay showing the location of each of the lights is also included.

The text is very informative about each lighthouse covered, right down to the dollars spent on each light, the approval process for those monies, construction, light keepers, daily life at a lighthouse...and in some cases, the move of a lighthouse to another location in order to save the light from destruction or for posterity. Other facts are discussed as well, many unique in nature. Did you know that nuclear power was once used in a lighthouse? It was, and in the Chesapeake Bay.

A framed section with identification information on each lighthouse is also included in each chapter, detailing such items as date of establishment, lighthouse position, light characteristic, height, range, etc.

All in all, I don't think you could ask for more in a perfect book on Chesapeake Bay lighthouses. This book will make any "wickie" very happy.

This is a great photographic history of Michigan. I recomend itto anyone interested in their city's heritage. I loved this book! END

"Bay Country" does justice to the many legitimate claims on the Chesapeake Bay. Horton loves the bay, its grasses, oysters, crabs, and rockfish; the watermen who live off it and exploit it, and the ways of life and physical artifacts -- bridges, old roads, cabins -- people have built around it. He also knows its lovers, including him, are killing it. He portrays the bay and its life, its tributaries(including a wonderful essey on how hard it is to wring every last pollutant from sewer water) the watermen, their traditional (and tight) communities, and the hard life they make from its resources. He has chapters on wind and energy use by people and animals. Horton poetically evokes the bay's charms, in a book that is part nature writing, part sociology, part ecological economy, and part a gloss on Pogo's famous remark, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Not a particularly hopeful book, but a very realistic one, fair to all sides and to the glorious bay itself.

Every networking professional should have this book in his or her cube

If you've not read any of David Adams Richards' books, you're missing a wonderful experience. Richards is master of the sublime, even when covering gritty topics and plotlines. Such as it is in this title; the characters are imperfect, flawed, some of them disturbed, outcast. This story is a tangled web woven, entrapping the souls it skirts, unravelling their lives as the situation(s) gain momentum. There are truly haunting moments experienced as one absorbs the tale. Although the reader will have affinity with the characters' very human flaws, Richards never allows us to get too close and I believe he does that deliberately; this fiction takes an in-depth look at the shallowness of living on the edge and the waste that it is.

The story will pull you in gently and carry you along with ease - the writing is so good you don't notice it... you simply absorb the story and its characters.

I've been keeping my eyes open for more of this writer's works (I started with his latest "Mercy Among the Children") as he has quickly become one of my fave writers. This is an excellent starter into the rich and dense world of David Adams Richards. Enjoy.

I'd been to the area several times, but with the Cadogan in tow, I discovered the Bay of Naples' hidden treasures. Wish I'd had it along on all my journeys.

I read the entire book last night; couldn't put it down. All the stories are compelling and thought provoking. My favorites were 1. A young boy has a new family member who ruins his relationship with his sheepdog, soon after loosing his mother 2. A spinster teacher takes her 3 month summer vacations in the Hebrides imagining herself in love and 3. A young lady with lovely manners finds help for her broken down car in the most unexpected place. I was captivated by the wonderful characters, human and animal, as portrayed in the Scottish style Ms.Beckwith is so adept with. It's too bad her books are so difficult to find.

Bay Ridge is located at Tolly Point, where the Chesapeake meets the Severn. The authors captured the flavor of this unique waterfront community from when it was a haven for victorian vactioners arriving by steamboat and rail to the present day year round community! Beyond the average "coffee table" book.

Lovely lights and colors I found invading silently into my heart while I turn on a photographer's book.
Have ever seen the book 'Bay/Sky' ? - Maybe/Surely that would be another expression of 'Do you know what photographic ecstacy is ? '.
Joel Meyerowitz reveals off a tremendous tales from the Nature with none of words ; Only with Lights. Colors, Darkness, Mists, Waters, Clouds, Sky ... . More over it, ultimately What a living on Earth is all about ... .

After anyone whoever see this book, then he/she should ask to others - Have you ever seen the book Bay/Sky ?

Joel Meyerowitz's lightworks are in silence, yet it's echos are standing as perpetual existence !

A MUST-SEE photographic masterpiece it is.