Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, (Paperback)

from mlhershey

Very interesting--we visited this island, however the book went on and on.

from DanDiercks

The story of Tangier Island and how climate change is affecting it. Tangier since the early part of the 20th century has been disappearing as the ocean levels rise. Predictions are that in 50 years the island will be gone. This book does a great job of talking about the island's history, its peop...

from japaul22

Tangier Island is a tiny island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay (between Virginia and Maryland on the East coast of the US) that is getting tinier by the moment. This is true for both the physical shoreline of the island and for the aging population. The island is visibly sinking into the b...

from rosalita

There's a romance that lingers around certain places in America. Usually they are places that to outside observers have been “left behind” by modernity. Those of us frantically trying to keep up with the blistering pace of technology fool ourselves into thinking that the “good old days” represent...

from ReluctantTechie

This book was a finalist for the One Maryland One Book selection for 2019. It presents quite a dilemma- how many resources can we afford to spend to try to preserve this unique community when the forces of nature are so strong? An interesting read for our bookclub, but it was a bit of a challenge...