I checked this book out of the library and now plan to buy it for my children. If you live near, have ever lived near, or have ever visited the Chesapeake Bay, you will find the text and artwork enchanting. The rhymes for each letter are clever and the illustrations are wonderful. In fact, anyone who lives on or visits the water (it doesn't have to be the Cheasapeake Bay) would find a connection to this book. A great abc book.

If you live on, near or visit and love Chesapeake Bay you should read this engaging and informative book. A collection of John Page William Jr.'s columns from "Chesapeake Bay Magazine," the book walks you through a year on the Bay and it's surrounding country. Once you've read it, you'll be amazed at how it sharpens your view of what is going on around you on or along the water. This is a book for anyone who enjoys the Bay in any way -- boating, camping, cottaging, or just sitting by the waterside on a quiet afternoon with a line in the water. Highly recommended!

This book is a must-read for those concerned about the Chesapeake Bay and those interested in environmental politics. Highly recommended.

This book contains literally hundreds of recipes for preparing blue crabs. Each page contains a photo of something crab related with a brief description. If you love eating blue crab, this book is for you.

Filled with memorable images. We keep the book beside our bed stand and reread a little of it each night. Excellent for family reading. Not a children's book but a family book. My husband loves the story. Seems to ring a lone bell somewhere out of our evolution that seems to tie families of geese and our family.

A wonderful guide that should be read by anyone who loves the Chesapeake and its inhabitants.

A delightful pistache with Chappell's usual witty touc

For readers of Mr. Byron's books, "Chesapeake Duke" is populated with the Marlin clan. The Duke in the title is the newest member of the Marlin family----a Chesapeake Bay Retriever.

"Chesapeake Duke" is one of those so-called children's books. Indeed, it does not tackle issues with the same adult insight and tone as in "The Lord's Oysters" or "Done Crabbin". But it is still a pleasing read for admirers of Noah Marlin and his Chesapeake era.

This collection of nine essays, edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, examine various aspects of the development of Anglo-American culture in the Chesapeake colonies, Maryland and Virginia. The studies provide a detailed and informative consideration of life in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake.

The scholars writing in this volume have published various works on the colonial Chesapeake. James Horn, who authored the essay on servant emigration to the Chesapeake, has written Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Lorena S. Walsh, who herein examines marriage and family life in colonial Maryland, has written From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman provide a startling and compelling portrait of family fragmentation and reformation due to early parental death and successive remarriage. The two also cowrote the study, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750, a detailed reconstruction of life in a Virginia county, for masters and farmers and servants and slaves.

The emergence of an American-born elite is considered in Virginia by Carole Shammas, author of Inheritance in America, and in Maryland by David W. Jordan, author of Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632-1715. Carville V. Earle, author of Evolution of a Tidewater Settlement System, presents a study of disease and death rates in early Virginia. Kevin P. Kelly studies the dispersed settlement patterns in Surry County, Virginia. Kelly authored The Economic and Social Development of Seventeenth-Century Surry County, Virginia. Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard, who have authrored and edited a number of studies on the Chesapeake, present in this book a study of the economic opportunities of freed indentured servants in Maryland.

The essays presented in this work should interest anyone researching Chesapeake history or Southern genealogy.

Africans and African-Americans were present in Virginia from early in the seventeenth century, but the essays herein concentrate on the early Anglo-American presence. The book by Rutman and Rutman, as well as the work by Walsh, should be consulted for African-American life in the early Chesapeake. See also Wesley Frank Craven, White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. White, Red, and Black is a tremendous but succinct study of the white, Indian and African presence in early colonial Virginia. Gerald Mullin, Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, as well as works by Mechal Sobel, illuminate black colonial experience in a later period.

Chesapeake Wildlife (text and illustrations by Pat Vojtech) is a singularly stunning, breathtakingly beautiful book, filled with full color photographs of natural wildlife from black bears to snowy egrets. The text includes a history and overview of Chesapeake wildlife, followed by looks at various specific species including elk, raccoons, raptors, seabirds, and much more. Chesapeake Wildlife is impressively informative, highly recommended for school and community library wildlife reference collections, and the perfect giftbook for any nature enthusiast.