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Seashore Chronicles: Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Islands - Couverture souple

 
9780813918792: Seashore Chronicles: Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Islands
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813918790 ISBN 13 : 9780813918792
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 1997

Synopsis

ASSATEAGUE, Chincoteague, Parramore, Smith's, Hog, Wallop's: The names of Virginia's isolated barrier islands evoke their beauty and wildness, their dynamic ecology. Drawing chapters from the writings of novelists, naturalists, journalists, and outdoorsmen, Seashore Chronicles presents the history of these slender, constantly shifting landforms from the 1650s to the present. Robert E. Lee surveys the agricultural potential of Smith's Island, and a young Howard Pyle describes the Chincoteague pony penning. William Warner provides an impressionistic foreword and noted writer Tom Horton adds a contemporary chapter on the islands' survival. Eastern Shore residents Brooks Miles Barnes and Barry R. Truitt have compiled a cyclical story of economic settlement, of destruction and conservation, for those who have visited the islands many times as well as for those who have not yet experienced their alluring vitality.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brooks Miles Barnes is Librarian at the Eastern Shore Public Library. Barry R. Truitt is Director of Science and Stewardship at the Nature Conservancy's Virginia Coast Reserve.

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Éditeur
University of Virginia Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813918790
ISBN 13 
9780813918792
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
Éditeur
Barnes Brooks Miles, Truitt Barry R.
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Personne responsable
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