An Intimate Journey into a Chesapeake Wetland
Edición de la obra The great marsh
| Autor | David W. Harp, Tom Horton |
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| Editorial | The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | July 10, 2002 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 144 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780801867774 |
| ISBN-10 | 0801867770 |
| OCLC | 46640578 |
| LCCN | 2001001762 |
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"Is it still possible to make a voyage of discovery here in Maryland, the nation's fifth most densely settled state? In The Great Marsh: An Intimate Journey into a Chesapeake Wetland, David W. Harp's photography and Tom Horton's prose produce a portrait of one such journey in an intriguing and endangered habitat." "Into this remarkable territory - whose shrinking dimensions frighten every naturalist and ecologist - Harp and Horton embarked on a canoe trip, exploring, documenting, and photographing the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County. This volume, at its core, is the story of a single crossing of the Blackwater's length, east to west, while the accompanying essays discuss how the marsh functions as a refuge for migrating butterflies, the wetlands sustain a lonely trapper, and the bogs yield archeological treasures - remnants of American Indian hunting forays and colonial boat building."--Jacket.