Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With The Watermen Of Vanishing Tangier Island
by Earl Swift
Buy on AmazonA brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." — Hampton Sides • “GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK.” — Beth Macy • "GRIPPING. FANTASTIC." — Outside • "CAPTIVATING." — Washington Post • "POWERFUL." — Bill McKibben • "VIVID. HARROWING AND MOVING." — Science • "A MASTERFUL NARRATIVE." — Christian Science Monitor • "THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR." — Stephen L.…
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"Journalist Earl Swift spent more than a year living on Tangier Island, an isolated – and swiftly eroding – scrap of land in the Chesapeake Bay. He went out with the watermen searching for crabs, watched the summer tourists descend and leave again, and dug into the island’s unique history of religious revivalism to produce this deep, nuanced portrait of a place that’s already profoundly affected by stronger storms and rising seas, but where the islanders went solidly for Donald Trump, resist the idea of climate change, and trust in God to keep them safe."
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