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Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future

By Kate Livie
Narrated by: Bianca Bryan
Unabridged — 6 hours, 47 minutes
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By Kate Livie
Narrated by: Bianca Bryan
Unabridged — 6 hours, 47 minutes

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Chesapeake oysters are part of the legacy of the area, history on the half-shell. Hear of their beginning (foot-long bivalves!) through cultivation today.



The eastern oyster, the humble bivalve and delicious treat, are the living bones of the Chesapeake, as well as the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these impossibly abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters but the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets...