Green Shingles : At the Edge of Chesapeake Bay
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Review
"There is much here that will interest readers hereabouts, for the Chesapeake Bay is a place about which many of us dream and which a few of us are privileged enough to have made home... Svenson sees his environmentalism through a clear eye, one that appreciates not merely natural wonders but human accomplishments." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
"Peter Svenson's rigorously detailed recollections... are so rich in fact and so powerfully constructed as to make high adventure of something as seemingly mundane as a shift on a Coast Guard buoy tender. Svenson has the eye of an artist obsessed with detail and the curiosity of a reporter enraptured by the who, what, when, where, why, and how of just about anything. And it's all under one roof in Green Shingles." -- J. Taylor Buckley, USA Today
"Fascinating... Svenson skillfully uses his artist's eye to describe the ever-changing panoramas unfolding from Mitchell's Bluff -- the colors of the sky and water, the lure of weather and wind current." -- Susan Q. Stranahan, Baltimore Sun
Review
"A courageous book welding natural history and fast-paced landscape change in a glimmer as bright as the Bay." -- John StilgoeHarvard University, author of Outside Lies the Magic
Green Shingles : At the Edge of Chesapeake Bay
Green Shingles: At the Edge of Chesapeake Bay,Peter Svenson,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801864461,Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and,Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.),Description and travel,Ecology,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental conditions,History,Natural Resources,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Social life and customs,United States - State & Local - General,Education / Higher,Places & peoples: general interest,Svenson, Peter,Virginia
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