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Chesapeake Kaleidoscope: Interesting, Unusual, Significant, and Amusing facts About Chesapeake Bay.Description
Contents (I) The Bay: Past, Present and Future (a) Physical Phenomena (b) The Changing Bay Environment (c) Agencies and Organizations Concerned with the Bay; (II) Exporing Chesapeake Bay (a) The First Europeans and Those Who Followed (b) How They Named What They Found (c) Discovering the Bay Today: (1) Museums and Historical Sites (2) Festivals and Local Celebrations; (III) Who Was Who Around the Chesapeake: (a) Indians (b) Pirates and Privateers (c) Individuals and deeds: An Alphabetical Assortment (d) How They Amused Themselves; (IV) In, Over, and Around Chesapeake Bay: (a) Shellfish 1. Oysters 2. Crabs 3. Clams (b) Finfish (c) Other Marine Life (d) Bay Area Wildlife (e) Fossils; (V) Boats and the Bay: (a) Built and Sailed on the Bay (b) Steamboats (c) Ferries and the Bridges that Replaced Them; (VI) Commerce on the Chesapeake: (a) Natural Resources and Trade (b) Bay Ports (c) Wind, Water, and Tide Mills (d) Canals (e) Lights; Bibliography; Index
Physical Description: 6" x 9" x 3/8" Book, White Background cover with Blue writing and pictures