Alice Jane LippsonCritiques

Excellent, excellent, excellent. I’ve seen nothing comparable, with the exception of White’s Chesapeake Bay Field Guide, which is much more brief. Much more brief probably suits many people – this book is quite detailed. But for lovers of the Bay with inquiring minds the detail is welcome. And there’s a great wealth of first-rate illustrations. The two books have inestimably enriched my visits and paddles around the Bay’s tributaries, marshes, swamps and shores, along with a few other flora & fauna guides and paddling guides, especially Ed Gertler’s. For those of us who live near the Bay and truly treasure it, the understanding it provides of how the Bay was formed, how it functions, how rich, variable and fragile it is, and how human activities affect it is invaluable.

55 p.