The Great Marsh
Subtitle: An Intimate Journey into a Chesapeake Wetland
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780801867774
Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Travel writing; Rivers; Natural History; Wildlife Conservation; Wetland ecology; Nature; Pictorial works; Nature/Ecology; Maryland; Virginia; Natural Resources; Ecology; Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals; Mid-Atlantic States; Nature / General; Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Blackwater National Wildlife R; Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (Md.)
First sentence: FIVE CENTURIES AFTER VERRAZANO discovered Chesapeake Bay, four centuries after John Smith charted it, was it still possible to make a voyage of discovery here in Maryland, the nation's fifth most densely settled state?