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On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a national call to arms against Imperial Germany. What followed in the United States was a frenzied effort to build hundreds of merchant ships to replace those being destroyed in Germany’s campaign...

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When Prohibition was the law, Chesapeake Bay was a smuggler’s paradise. Rogues of all types transported boatloads of forbidden liquor in the days when America experimented with forced, and unforeseeable, temperance. In a style reminiscent of the era it describes,...

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His dream was to play professional baseball. Instead, Sam Lacy became an outspoken advocate for equal opportunity, using words to pry open doors so athletes at all levels could realize their dreams. Fighting for Fairness is the account of sportswriter...

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“I must have presented a strange and humorous sight to him as I carefully approached on the rickety pier, arms slightly extended for balance. Cameras and tape recorders and bags hung from straps around my neck and shoulders, and my...

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A 200-year history of pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers in the Chesapeake Bay region that begins with the Virginia colony in 1609 and ends with the peaceful resolution of the Othello affair in 1807. A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates,...

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A tour across Maryland and the true stories of the state’s unique development, including cities, waterways, farmland, and transportation routes.  Veteran Washington Post reporter and award-winning writer Eugene L. Meyer directs a tour across the Free State that is part love...

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A remarkably diverse population of bird life, migratory and indigenous, lives in the region known as the Chesapeake Bay country. It is one of the finest locations on the eastern seaboard for observing wild birds. Among the cattail and wild...

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The adventures of steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay, from the first in 1813, to the last in 1963.  This book portrays the steamboat era on the Chesapeake (1813-1963), which matched the glamour and excitement of the steamboats on the Mississippi....

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Chesapeake Crimes II is an eclectic mix of mystery and murder. No sooner do the stories start than the bodies begin to fall. Fifteen mysteries written by fifteen different authors—all members of Chesapeake Sisters in Crime and some of the...

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Since its discovery by Captain John Smith in 1608, the Nanticoke has never been particularly hospitable to the outsider. Flowing thirty-six miles from its source above Seaford, Delaware, to the Chesapeake Bay below Salisbury on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, it is...

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Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution tells the story of Marylanders who could not engage in the passionate rebellion that was breaking out all around them. Although most were nearly as disillusioned with England as their rebel counterparts, the loyalists...

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Thirty years have passed since the 1975 publication of Robert H. Burgess’s classic Chesapeake Sailing Craft, and while the original edition of this book has been out of print for many years, this new expanded edition brings alive the author’s...

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What would you do if faced with a school of sharks in a feeding frenzy? Find out in this book, unquestionably the most authoritative compact guide to the world of underwater animals that are poisonous, venomous, and electric. It is...

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A fascinating account of the search for Commodore Joshua Barney’s Chesapeake Flotilla that was lost beneath the Patuxent River following a battle with the British during the War of 1812. Years ago, few people understood the value of the submerged...