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Author : John Wennersten
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615182506
In the decades after the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster.
Author : John R.. Wennersten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492061854
Author : Jamie L. H. Goodall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467141161
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles.
Author : Ben Towle
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781620102633
Ben Towle’s critically acclaimed, Eisner-nominated comic finally comes to print! In the coastal town of Blood's Haven, the economy runs on oysters. Oyster farming is one of the most lucrative professions, but also the most dangerous. Not just from the unforgiving ocean and its watery depths—there are also oyster pirates to worry about! Commander Davidson Bulloch and his motley crew are tasked with capturing these ne'er-do-wells—but they don't know that Treacher Fink, the pirates' leader, possesses a magical artifact that can call forth a legendary spirit with the power to control the sea and everything in it!
Author : Jamie L H Goodall
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540242153
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritim
Author : Katherine J. Livie
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625853929
This cultural and ecological history explores the rise of Chesapeake’s mighty mollusk from Colonial-era harvesting to contemporary cultivation. Oysters are an essential part of Chesapeake Bay culture and cuisine, as well as the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters. In later years, however, the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures, and overconsumption decimated the population by the end of the twentieth century. To combat the problem, Virginia began leasing its waters to private oyster farmers. Today, these boutique oyster farms are sustainably meeting the culinary demand of a new generation of connoisseurs. But in Maryland, passionate debate continues among scientists and oystermen whether aquaculture or wild harvesting is the better path. With careful research and interviews with experts, author Kate Livie presents this dynamic story and a glimpse of what the future may hold.
Author : Christine Keiner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820337180
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.
Author : Summer Brennan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781619026483
It all began simply enough. In 1976 the Point Reyes Wilderness Act granted the highest protection in America to more than 33,000 acres of California forest, grassland and shoreline – including Drakes Estero, an estuary of stunning beauty. Inside was a small, family–run oyster farm first established in the 1930s. A local rancher bought the business in 2005, renaming it The Drakes Bay Oyster Company. When the National Park Service informed him that the 40–year lease would not be renewed past 2012, he vowed to keep the farm in business even if it meant taking his fight all the way to the Supreme Court. Environmentalists, national politicians, scientists, and the Department of the Interior all joined a protracted battle for the estuary that had the power to influence the future of wilderness for decades to come. Were the oyster farmers environmental criminals, or victims of government fraud? Fought against a backdrop of fear of government corruption and the looming specter of climate change, the battle struck a national nerve, pitting nature against agriculture and science against politics, as it sought to determine who belonged and who didn't belong, and what it means to be wild.
Author : William Keith Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Oyster-culture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106218183
Author : Donald G. Shomette
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
ISBN : 087033607X
A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers are pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government authority in the Chesapeake Bay region. It is an exciting and dramatic two hundred-year history that begins grimly with the "starving time" in the Virginia colony in 1609, and ends with the peaceful resolution of the Othello affair with the French in 1807. In between lies a full panoply of violent and bizarre buccaneering incidents that one is hard pressed to imagine from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. Documented by impressive research in articles of the Netherlands, England, and the United States, Shomette skillfully reconstructs these episodes and many others, including the intensive anti-pirate cruise to capture--dead or alive--the notorious Blackbeard. The anti-pirate cruises led to the roundup of dozens of pirates and some showy executions but did little to curb the continued terrorist activities of bandits like Roger Makeele, Stede Bonnet, and Joseph Wheland.
Author : Mark P. Donnelly,Daniel Diehl
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811748865
High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.
Author : Jane Wilson McWilliams,Carol Cushard Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Bay Ridge (Md.)
ISBN : 0961761717
Author : John R. Wennersten
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007004717371
In the decades following the Civil War, the Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life-and-death struggle to harvest the oyster, one of the most valuable commodities on the Atlantic coast. Nearly seven thousand men fought on the Bay for oysters until the resource was almost exhausted in the early twentieth century. First the shallow-water tongers fought with the deep-water dredgers whose scooplike instruments left few oysters for reproduction. Later, Maryland and Virginia violently disputed their state boundaries for the sake of oyster-fishing rights in the Bay and Potomac River. This regional and social history is brimming with episodes involving watermen, law enforcement officers, government officials, Bay scientists, immigrants, and oyster shuckers, all of whom were drawn into the lethal conflict.
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588365910
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.
Author : David Faulkner,University Lecturer in Strategic Management David Faulkner
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
ISBN : 1601455313
It's a time in our history when young men are shangaied into servitude to ruthless boat captains. Haynie McKenna's search for one victim pits him against a sharpshooting assassin, a cabal of former Confederate officers and his own family ghosts.
