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            <recommended book links>

Baltimore Sun. 1998. The Wild Side of Maryland: An Outdoor Guide. Baltimore, MD.

Collins, George J. and Alexander, Kathy. 2001. Chessie Racing. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.  
The story of Maryland's entry into the 1997-1998 Whitbread Round the World Race. Watch for the George Collins interview on the Voices Radio Series, December 9th!

Dorbin, Ann and Richard. 2001. Saving the Bay: People Working for the Future of the Chesapeake. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. www.paragonlight.com

Hancock J. and J. Kushlan. 1984. The Herons Handbook. New York, NY: Harper & Row.

Hayman, P. 1986. Shorebirds: An Identification Guide to the Waders of the World. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Horton, Tom.  1997. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island. Norton. 1994. Bay Country. 1992. Water's Way (w/David W. Harp). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1991. Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay, Washington, DC: Island Press.
"This is not merely a book for those who already know the Chesapeake, although they will be enchanted by Tom Horton's vast knowledge, narrative skills and eye for detail. Like the true bay native he is, Mr. Horton uses the Chesapeake as a limitless resource from which to harvest a great bounty of observations about politics, nature, and human beings." -- New York Times on Bay Country. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for the Outstanding Book of Nature Writing

Hurley, L.M. 1990. Field Guide To Submerged Aquatic Vegetation of Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Lippson, Alice Jane & Robert L. 1984/97. Life in the Chesapeake Bay.  
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
"Covers more than 400 species found both in and around the bay, from seaweed to sharks and geese. Life in the Chesapeake Bay's utility extends beyond the Bay itself, as many of the plants and animals discussed range up and down the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod... Identification is a simple task with Alice Jane Lippson's 285 attractive drawings of the creatures described in the book." -- Waterman's Gazette

Meanley, Brooke. 1975. Birds and Marshes of the Chesapeake Bay.  
Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers.

Michener, James. 1990. Chesapeake. New York, NY: Fawcett Books.

Schwartz, F.J. 1967. Maryland Turtles. Solomons, MD: University of Maryland, 
Natural Resources Instutite.

Shellenberger, William H. 1994/2001. Cruising the Chesapeake. Camden, ME: 
International Marine Publishing Company.

Turbyville, Linda. 1996. Bay Beacons: Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay.  
Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publisher.

Vojtech, Pat. 2001. Chesapeake Wildlife: Stories of Survival and Loss. 1973. Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses.Centreville, MD:Cornell Press Tidewater Publishers.

Warner, William W. 1994. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay New York, NY: Little Brown & Company.  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!

Wennersten, John R. 2001. The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society Press

White, Christopher P. 1989. Chesapeake Bay: The Nature of the Estuary.  
Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers.

Winegar, Deane. 2000. Longstreet Highroad Guide To The Chesapeake Bay.  
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Highroad Coastal Guides.

Williams, A.B. 1984. Shrimp, Lobsters and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast.  
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Williams, John Page. 1993. Chesapeake Almanac. 1992. Exploring the Chesapeake 
in Small Boats. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers.

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