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Chesapeake: Exploring the Water Trail of Captain John Smith

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This richly illustrated, informative, and inviting book intertwines two fascinating stories of discovery. The first, a few of the earliest classics of New World adventure, recounts Captain John Smith’s exploration of Chesapeake Bay 400 years ago; the second one revisits this stunning landscape as it is today—both to showcase its still-unspoiled splendors and to issue a timely warning of looming threats to its vibrant but fragile ecology.

Dozens of dazzling full-color up to date photographs evoke the Chesapeake spirit in all its many moods, whilst a wonderfully wide-ranging selection of archival images span the four centuries since John Smith first sailed, rowed, and wandered its woods and waterways, mapping the wilderness shores of an untamed The united states.

The writer, a veteran naturalist at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, has spent decades leading tours and teaching classes about the region. An ideal guide, he shares both his delight in the Bay’s glorious diversity and his deep concern for its future. In addition, his unique blend of experience, environmental sensitivity, and historical expertise offers modern visitors a rare opportunity to discover the Chesapeake as Smith did so long ago, leaving beaten paths and familiar waters at the back of to be informed why Congress will soon designate it as the first of The united states’s official National Historic Water Trails.

For history buffs, conservationists, armchair travelers, tourists planning a travel, and any person who simply loves first-rate nature photography, this beautiful book more than meets the high standard readers have come to expect from National Geographic.

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