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About this book
Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that, come January, icebreakers may be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay are iced up, the flow of commerce is impeded. At the turn of the nineteenth century, with the center of the new nation's government established it its arms, a frozen Bay meant that the United States' emergence to a status on par with the foremost nations of the world might be painfully slow. James Foster chronicles the disasters and pitfalls, large and small, that come with the coldest of winters.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Geography of the Chesapeake Bay
- 2. Freezing of the Bay’s Waters
- 3. Early Europeans in the Bay
- 4. Ice in the Bay: 1600s
- 5. Ice in the Bay: 1700s
- 6. Ice in the Bay: Early 1800s
- 7. The Great Susquehanna Ice Bridge of 1852
- 8. Winters from 1857 to 1899
- 9. Ice Gorges
- 10. Bay Ice and Warfare
- 11. Pilots and Lighthouses
- 12. The Bay’s Wintertime Delicacy: “Austers”
- 13. Ice in the Bay in the Early 1900s
- 14. The Winters Between 1919 and 1977
- 15. Ice in the Bay: 1977
- 16. Ice in the Bay: Late 1900s
- 17. Ways of the Watermen
- 18. Ice in the Bay: 2000s
- Epilogue: Another Look at the Big Ice Years on the Bay
- “Ice on the Chesapeake”
- Appendices
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author