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Welcome aboard the third volume of The Chesapeake. This book, The Chesapeake: Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs, spans the decades of the lives of our writers and the times of the Chesapeake Tidewater region from 1900 to the present time.
A first-person account of Chesapeake Bay bounty being harvested and provided to the national market is related by Capt. Joe Lore of Solomon's Island along with an interview with his father, Capt. J. C. Lore, Sr., from 50 years earlier.
Pepper Langley relished his days of establishing his own business after his high school commencement speaker told him he had a gold mine in his backyard.
The storytelling of Vi Englund is superb as she wrote vivid descriptions of going to sea. Get lost in the middle of roaring Atlantic storms in her ship's galley, and appreciate the majesty of the sea.
Mark Robbins provides entertaining tales of sailing, and Cap'n Larry Jarboe cannot be beat when it comes to knowing where the fish are hanging out and how to get them on your hook.
The Country Philosopher, Stephen Gore Uhler, got an elbow from another philosopher, Amos Arthur Holmes, but Steve wins overall for truthfulness - not a trait he learned from Jack Rue. Between Jack Rue and Fred McCoy, old tales are here for a new generation of tale-learners eager to find digital news of days of old.
Some of the old gold mines of The Solomon's Islander and The Chesapeake have been reopened, and we found Tony Marconi and Lenny Rudow hiding back in the caverns, grinning and eager to share their news and views with the world.
The Bill Burton State Park at Cambridge to the Cape Charles Harbor shown on the cover unite both shores of the Chesapeake to bring you, the listener, who may or may not dabble in U-boat fantasies and time warps, a complete view of the Tidewater region.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom were her relatives. She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down. But all doesn't go as planned.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Was this narration sped up?
- De Linda Vanaman en 10-12-15
De: Linda Greenlaw
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Essays of E. B. White
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest." Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features 31 of White's most memorable essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.B. White writes honestly, fearlessly and clearly
- De Bonny en 09-03-17
De: E. B. White
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- De: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- De Jean en 08-11-14
De: Mark Arax, y otros
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Hemingway's Boat
- Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934 - 1961
- De: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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An award-winning historian and author, Paul Hendrickson here turns his attention to one of America’s most cherished literary icons, Ernest Hemingway. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Hendrickson focuses on Hemingway’s life in its twilight, just prior to his suicide, and the seemingly singular constant in the man’s life: his boat, Pilar. On this vessel, Hemingway would entertain and travel, but it would also be the scene of some of his greatest tragedies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Hemingway biography for the 21st Century
- De George en 09-16-14
De: Paul Hendrickson
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The Longest Road
- Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- De: Philip Caputo
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-18
De: Philip Caputo
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The American Fisherman
- How Our Nation's Anglers Founded, Fed, Financed, and Forever Shaped the U.S.A.
- De: Willie Robertson, William Doyle
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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American Fisherman traces the impact fishing has had in shaping America's history, and reveals the influential role it has played in defining our lives. Willie Robertson persuasively argues that America became what it is today in no small part because of the anglers that call it home. From harvesting New England cod to fly fishing for Yellowstone trout to raising Pacific Northwest salmon, the fishing industry has long played an essential role in the establishment of many of the nation's earliest ports.
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5 out of 5 stars
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it was a great escalating book
- De Melanie en 12-30-22
De: Willie Robertson, y otros
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,465
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,080
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Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea—his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s. But his story, and his ship, have been lost to time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Gold
- De Mel en 06-24-15
De: Robert Kurson
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The Founding Fish
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read and released.
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-14
De: John McPhee
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An Extravagant Life
- An Autobiography Incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- De: Stuart Woods
- Narrado por: Tony Roberts
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Over the last 40 years, Stuart Woods has written more than 90 novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers and listeners don’t know is that Woods' very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Stuart Wood’ autobiography
- De Tosh en 09-11-22
De: Stuart Woods
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The Last Fish Tale
- The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Fishing at sea, an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history, may be coming to an end. The culture and traditions of coastal Britain and of seagoing nations everywhere are now threatened with extinction. Celebrated author Mark Kurlansky explores the fate of our oceans and the decline of our most ancient coastal enterprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love me some Kurlansky!
- De Eric Walden en 09-08-15
De: Mark Kurlansky
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Captain Phil Harris
- The Legendary Crab Fisherman, Our Hero, Our Dad
- De: Josh Harris, Jake Harris, Steve Springer, y otros
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Prior to his untimely death, in 2010, Captain Phil Harris was a star of Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, the hit show that follows the exhilarating lives of Alaskan crab fishermen as they brave the vicious Bering Sea. He led his crew through hurricane-force winds and four-story-high waves, hauling in millions of pounds of crab and raking in millions of dollars. Phil worked hard, but he played even harder....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost cried again!
- De The Girls en 09-12-16
De: Josh Harris, y otros
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Don't Give Up, Don't Give In
- Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
- De: Louis Zamperini, David Rensin
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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In Don't Give Up, Don’t Give In, Louis Zamperini offers never-before told tales that embody his simple, yet essential secrets of success: how his relationship with God, his ever-positive attitude, his constant pursuit of accomplishment - and a healthy dose of mischief - have helped him lead a long and fulfilled life, lessons we can all use to transform our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Followup to "Unbroken!"
- De Johnny en 05-13-15
De: Louis Zamperini, y otros
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The Last Slave Ship
- The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
- De: Ben Raines
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 176
Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. Just Wow.
- De Pinkhippiechick en 02-11-22
De: Ben Raines
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As It Should Be
- Tales of Old Florida
- De: Lance Edwards
- Narrado por: Lance Edwards
- Duración: 7 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Comprised of vignettes from his own experiences of growing up in Central Florida, this native Floridian reveals "Old Florida" through its land, its people and their relationship to the times. This is not the Florida of the travel brochures or the concrete and glass glitz of the developers but rather the real Florida as known only by those who are proud to call themselves (or declare themselves) native Floridians. Laugh and cry with the exploits of these tough and proud people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of boasting for a bit of History
- De Flo en 07-06-20
De: Lance Edwards
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The Dinosaur Artist
- Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
- De: Paige Williams
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 128
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia—a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).
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2 out of 5 stars
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More filler than Joan Rivers’ face.
- De Brandi en 03-13-19
De: Paige Williams
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Time Bandit
- Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
- De: Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand, Malcolm MacPherson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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The Time Bandit is the fishing vessel that Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand use to hook the "deadliest catch", Alaskan king crabs and opilio crabs, in the Bering Sea, a dangerous body of water that can steal years from a fisherman's life. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving 60-foot waves, gusting winds of 80 miles per hour, unwieldy and unpredictable half-ton steel crab traps, and an injury rate of almost 100-percent.
There are fewer than 400 fishermen of this kind in the U.S., and early death is a common fate. But the Hillstrand brothers are drawn to the drama and adventure of life on the high seas - this is their world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much Better Then I Had Expected
- De Andrew H. Hochheimer en 09-04-08
De: Andy Hillstrand, y otros
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The Age of Daredevils
- De: Michael Clarkson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
By turns a family drama and an action-adventure story, The Age of Daredevils chronicles the lives of the men and women who devoted themselves to the extraordinary sport of jumping over Niagara Falls in a barrel - a death-defying gamble that proved a powerful temptation to a hardy few. Internationally known in the 1920s and '30s for their barrel-jumping exploits, the Hills were a father-son team of daredevils who also rescued dozens of misguided thrill seekers and accident victims who followed them into the river.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Always Honest en 10-10-16
De: Michael Clarkson
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Wildlife Wars
- The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden
- De: Terry Grosz
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 474
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 429
In Wildlife Wars, Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories - alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching - from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met - on both sides of the law - as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title should be: "reckless egomaniac tells lies"
- De ross en 03-01-17
De: Terry Grosz