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Great Storms of the Chesapeake

Author : David Healey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236895
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Great Storms of the Chesapeake written by David Healey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the hurricanes, blizzards, and historic floods that have shaped the history of the Chesapeake Bay. Even before John Smith's crew weathered its first squall, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries had been ravaged by every type of storm imaginable. A 1769 hurricane altered the course of history, demolishing the shipping channels of Charlestown and making Baltimore the dominant port. A once-in-five-hundred-years storm, Tropical Storm Agnes, left more than seventy people dead and devastated the ecology of the bay. Before the blizzards of 2009 and 2010, the snowfall record was held by the combination of the Great Eastern Blizzard of 1899, which blew the water out of the bay, and the Great White Hurricane, which stranded the oyster fleet of Baltimore in feet of ice. Join author David Healey as he keeps an eye to the red horizon and chronicles the most remarkable storms to churn the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Includes photos and illustrations

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874352
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake written by William B. Cronin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Divine Wind

Author : Kerry Emanuel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199727341
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Divine Wind written by Kerry Emanuel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane. In Divine Wind, Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities on hurricanes, gives us an engaging account of these awe-inspiring meteorological events, revealing how hurricanes and typhoons have literally altered human history, thwarting military incursions and changing the course of explorations. Offering an account of the physics of the tropical atmosphere, the author explains how such benign climates give rise to the most powerful storms in the world and tells what modern science has learned about them. Interwoven with this scientific account are descriptions of some of the most important hurricanes in history and relevant works of art and literature. For instance, he describes the 17th-century hurricane that likely inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest and that led to the British colonization of Bermuda. We also read about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, by far the worst natural calamity in U.S. history, with a death toll between 8,000 and 12,000 that exceeded the San Francisco earthquake, the Johnstown Flood, and the Okeechobee Hurricane co Boasting more than one hundred color illustrations, frommbined. Boasting more than one hundred color illustrations, from ultra-modern Doppler imagery to classic paintings by Winslow Homer, Divine Wind captures the profound effects that hurricanes have had on humanity. Its fascinating blend of history, science, and art will appeal to weather junkies, science buffs, and everyone who read Isaac's Storm.

Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States

Author : Rick Schwartz
Publisher : Blue Diamond Books
ISBN 13 : 9780978628000
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States written by Rick Schwartz and published by Blue Diamond Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.

Chesapeake Bay Shipwrecks

Author : William B. Cogar
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467128821
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Shipwrecks written by William B. Cogar and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, is fed by more than 150 major rivers and streams from parts of six states and the District of Columbia. Two hundred miles long, with a shoreline that includes more than 11,500 miles of tributaries, the bay has been a major economic lifeline since pre-Columbian times. As such, it is not surprising that the bay has seen its share of shipwrecks over the centuries-from small and large vessels foundering in storms, like the Levin J. Marvel, to naval and merchant ships of all sizes lost to collisions, fires, and wars, such as the US Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga. The actual number of shipwrecks will never be known, but at least 3,000 in the bay and its tributaries have been documented-either in archives or newspapers or through underwater archaeology. While some wrecks saw great loss of life, others fortunately did not.

Storms from the Sun

Author : Michael J. Carlowicz
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
ISBN 13 : 9780309076425
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Storms from the Sun written by Michael J. Carlowicz and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emerging physical science of space weather and the impact the sun and solar storms have on Earth life.

Chesapeake Boyhood

Author : William H. Turner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855894
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Boyhood written by William H. Turner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression. Turner's stories include rousing tales of 'coon hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and Saturday jaunts to town. Turner brings the characters, experiences, waterscape, and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one has done before or is likely ever to do again. His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm. "Its chief virtue (besides its highly literate style), it seems to me, is its intimate, sensory knowledge of a vanishing Chesapeake landscape: its sounds and smells, the way things feel to the touch, the lore lodged in the names of the commonest creatures and activities... At one point Turner likens the local farmers and fishermen sitting around the table in the country store to fixed positions on a compass, with `all the cardinal points taken,' and I think of this [book] as a kind of compass too, that describes one man's orientation to the Eastern Shore."--Andrea Hammer, St. Mary's College "Modern outdoor writing has enough anemic adventures by faint-hearted writers reared in the suburbs. What it needs more of is the droll wit of an Ed Zern, the robust foolishness of a Patrick McManus, and the lean prose of an Ernest Hemingway. It gets all three in the tales of Bill Turner."--George Regier, author of Heron Hill Chronicle and Wanderer on My Native Shore "Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution." -- Waterman's Gazette

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks

Author :
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780870334511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks written by and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1900s, skipjacks were a familiar fixture in every port on the Chesapeake. Their captains and crews were tough, hardy souls who earned a living in the harsh conditions of the wintertime Bay, dredging for oysters under sail. The author has gone among skipjack captains, gathering stories of exciting events in their lives and reminiscences of how it was in the good times when oysters were healthy and plentiful. They told too about the bad times, when storms endangered their lives, or ice threatened their boats, the times when harvests were meager or the price they could get for oysters was too low to cover their expenses. Throughout, the author threads the history of the skipjack, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century when dredging by sail was the only legal method, to the 1990s when the twin scourges of disease and water quality threatened to put an end to the country's last commercial sailing fleet.

The Geography of Risk

Author : Gilbert M. Gaul
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374718520
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Risk written by Gilbert M. Gaul and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history—but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm’s way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won’t be long before we see a $250 billion hurricane. Why? Because Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains. And they have been encouraged to do so by what Gilbert M. Gaul reveals in The Geography of Risk to be a confounding array of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance that shift the risk of life at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers, radically distorting common notions of risk. These federal incentives, Gaul argues, have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, and the costs to taxpayers are reaching unsustainable levels. We have become responsible for a shocking array of coastal amenities: new roads, bridges, buildings, streetlights, tennis courts, marinas, gazebos, and even spoiled food after hurricanes. The Geography of Risk will forever change the way you think about the coasts, from the clash between economic interests and nature, to the heated politics of regulators and developers.

The Wreck of the Old 97

Author : Larry G. Aaron
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230579
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Old 97 written by Larry G. Aaron and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cause and aftermath of the horrific railway disaster, examined by an award-winning historian. With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to “put her in Spencer on time” or “put her in Hell.” Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding “The Wreck of the Old 97,” that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore.

Research Awards Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Research Awards Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chesapeake

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0812986288
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one man’s dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Chesapeake “Another of James Michener’s great mines of narrative, character and lore.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . An emotionally and intellectually appealing book.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Michener’s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.”—Associated Press

Alice on Board

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442445882
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Alice on Board written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking one last adventure before going off to college, Alice and her friends find summer employment on a Chesapeake Bay cruise ship.

Tobacco Coast

Author : Arthur Pierce Middleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tobacco Coast written by Arthur Pierce Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hot Property

Author : Sherryl Woods
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 9780440210030
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hot Property written by Sherryl Woods and published by Dell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just after Molly moves into her new Key Biscayne condo, she discovers a corpse in the condo party room--and the knife in his back is hers. Molly starts snooping around and finds herself in hot water with the killer, but the uneasy alliance Molly forms with a gorgeous detective may be the start of something wonderful.

Chesapeake Country

Author : Eugene L. Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Country written by Eugene L. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Chesapeake country. With photographs and text, it provides a guide to Chesapeake's variegated wildlife, towns forgotten by time, spectacular vistas, the diverse lifestyles of the people who live there, and the environmental and ecological challenges that the bay faces

A Furious Sky

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1631499068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book A Furious Sky written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.