Life in the Chesapeake Bay

by Alice Jane Lippson and Robert L. Lippson

Book Overview

Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185475X
• ISBN13: 9780801854750
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

The awesome beauty of small things.

Expanded revision of the 1984 Guide. I live in New Jersey & this wonderful book is one of the best teachers for my home waters. "Life in Chesapeake Bay" is organized to take the reader from an overview of bay ecology, across the sand beaches, around the piers & pilings, into the intertidal zone, through shallow waters, marshes & then out toward deeper waters. Illustrations are clear line drawings. The scholarship never leaves the reader gasping for air. There's a highly informative glossary & species list. "Life in Chesapeake Bay" makes a strong pro-environmental statement by showing us the diversity, poetry & interconnectedness of life (including humans) at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the fragility of this great inter-weaving of water, tide, sand & mud. It teaches us the awesome beauty of small things that exist right in front of out eyes. Bob Rixon