DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Chesapeake – An Environmental Biography

John R Wennersten author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Maryland Historical Society

Published:26th Feb '01

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Chesapeake – An Environmental Biography cover

Part of the problem in dealing with public perceptions about Chesapeake Bay is that people think it will last forever. This obviously is not true. As oceanographer Jerry Schubel has noted, twenty thousand years ago there was no Chesapeake Bay. Since that time, there have been other beginnings and endings of other Chesapeake Bays. As we look to the future, however, we can see that increasingly the transformation of the Chesapeake will be more a human phenomenon than a work of nature.

Wennersten's careful research and obvious concern for the region show clearly in his reasoned discussions of the multitude of problems facing the area, as conservationists continue to battle with special-interest groups over how best to 'save the Bay.' -- Marlene Satter Forward Magazine

ISBN: 9780938420750

Dimensions: 233mm x 163mm x 27mm

Weight: 618g

288 pages