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ISBN-10:: 080184875X
ISBN-13:: 9780801848759
Pub. Date:: 02/01/1994
Publisher:: Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-10:: 080184875X
ISBN-13:: 9780801848759
Pub. Date:: 02/01/1994
Publisher:: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Bay Country, Tom Horton's bestselling book about the Chesapeake, is now available in paperback from Johns Hopkins. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, Horton has written about the environment for the past fifteen years in the Baltimore Sun. He is a writer who can mention herring and Proust in the same breath—and charm readers with no previous affection for either. His stories of oysters and sea nettle, elms and rivers, barrier islands and blue crabs, farmers and watermen, always reach beyond the local to the most universal of subjects.

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ISBN-13:	9780801848759
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1994
Series:	Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Edition description:	20
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tom Horton reported on the Chesapeake Bay for the Baltimore Sun for fifteen years before becoming a freelancer in 1987. Available from Johns Hopkins, Horton's first book, Bay Country, won the John Burroughs Medal for our nation's best natural history book of the year. David W. Harp and Tom Horton's previous books, Water's Way: Life along the Chesapeake and The Great Marsh: An Intimate Journey into a Chesapeake Wetland, are also published by Johns Hopkins.

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Must reading in a city that reinvented itself by seeking its harbor roots.
—Baltimore Magazine

Mr. Horton—a Baltimore journalist who has developed a devoted but hitherto local following—ventures into a small, distinguished circle of nature writers. Fans of Aldo Leopold, John McPhee, and Sigurd Olson won't be disappointed.
—New York Times Book Review

Sailing down the Chesapeake in this book is bracing, for Horton is knowledgeable, thoughtful, full of wonder about the natural world and outspoken . . . As Smith Islanders might say, it's a 'right smart' book.
—Washington Post

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

Must reading in a city that reinvented itself by seeking its harbor roots.
—Baltimore Magazine

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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

Mr. Horton—a Baltimore journalist who has developed a devoted but hitherto local following—ventures into a small, distinguished circle of nature writers. Fans of Aldo Leopold, John McPhee, and Sigurd Olson won't be disappointed.

New York Times Book Review

Must reading in a city that reinvented itself by seeking its harbor roots.

Baltimore Magazine

Sailing down the Chesapeake in this book is bracing, for Horton is knowledgeable, thoughtful, full of wonder about the natural world and outspoken . . . As Smith Islanders might say, it's a 'right smart' book.

Washington Post

"Sailing down the Chesapeake in this book is bracing, for Horton is knowledgeable, thoughtful, full of wonder about the natural world and outspoken... As Smith Islanders might say, it's a 'right smart' book."

Washington Post

Bay Country chronicles changes in the lands and waters of the Chesapeake Bay. During the past century, human influence has decreased the base-line populations of geese, eels, crabs, and trees. As Horton points out, we no longer miss these living things be cause they have never been abundant in our lifetimesa tragedy of both ecological and human dimensions. His lyrical and understandable prose will convince doubters of the need to consider the diverse consequences of their actions. Horton, a native of the Chesapeake's Eastern Shore, has been an environmental writer for the Baltimore Sun. Highly recommended. James R. Karr, Smithsonian Tropi cal Research Inst., Balboa, Panama

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