Displaying 1 of 1 2018 Format: Book Author: Swift, Earl, 1958- author. Title: Chesapeake requiem : a year with the waterman of vanishing Tangier Island / Earl Swift. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2018] Description: 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: Presents a portrait of Chesapeake Bay's two-hundred-year-old Tangier Island crabbing community, describing their isolated and vanishing way of life while explaining how rising sea levels will render the island uninhabitable within twenty years. Subjects: Crabbing -- Virginia -- Tangier Island -- Pictorial works. Blue crab -- Virginia -- Tangier Island -- Pictorial works. Tangier Island (Va.) Genre: Illustrated works. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: And every island fled away -- The Lord tells the water -- Eyeing the end times -- A people anointed -- The sea is come up. LCCN: 2018024659 ISBN: 9780062661395 0062661396 9780062661401 006266140X Other Number: 1039420921 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 737723 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 639.56 Swift Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
