Bay History

• 1812: Rediscovering Chesapeake Bay's Forgotten War

  David Healey, Bella Rosa Books, 2005

• A Day on the Bay

  Bert and Anthea Smith, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2001

• A History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

  David Berry, History Press, Charleston, S.C., 2010

• An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake

  Tom Horton, W. W. Norton and Co., New York, N.Y., 1996

• Baltimore Harbor: A Picture History

  Robert Keith, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1991

• Bay Plain and Piedmont: A Landscape History of the Chesapeake Heartland from 1.3 Billion Years Ago to 2000

  Robert S. Grumet, National Park Service, Annapolis, Md., 2000

• Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War

  Eric Mills, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1996

• Chesapeake Bay Voices: Narrative from Four Centuries

  Maurice Duke, The Dietz Press, Richmond, Va., 1993

• Chesapeake Boyhood

  William H. Turner, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1997

• Chesapeake by Steamboat

  David C. Holly, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2000

• Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties

  Eric Mills, Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville, Md., 2000

• Chesapeake Winds and Tides

  Don Parks, Cherokee Books, Dover, Del., 2009

• Chesapeake's Western Shore: Vintage Vacationland

  Lara Lutz, Arcadia Publishing, Chicago, Ill., 2009

• Chesapeake: Exploring the Water Trail of Captain John Smith

  John Page Williams, National Geographic, 2007

• Colonial Virginia

  Richard Morton, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960

• Dancing with the Tide: Watermen of the Chesapeake

  Mick Blackistone, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2001

• East of the Chesapeake

  William H. Turner, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2000

• Elliott's Island: The Land That Time Forgot

  A.M. Foley and Freddie T. Waller, Dogwood Ridge Books, Elliott Island, Md., 1999

• Environment, Disease, and Mortality in Early Virginia

  Carville V. Earle, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1979

• Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake

  Sarah Meacham, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2009

• Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay: And Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake

  Donald Shomette, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1996

• Having My Say: Conversations with Chesapeake Bay Waterman Wylie "Gator" Abbott

  A.M. Foley, Dogwood Ridge Books, Elliott Island, Md., 2006

• History of the Virginia Company of London

  Edward D. Neill, Unknown, Albany, N.Y., 1869

• In Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake

  Ralph E. Eshelman and Burton K. Kummerow, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2012

• Indian Land Loss in Virginia: A Prototype of Federal Indian Land Policy

  Helen C. Roundtree, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis., 1973

• Jamestown Narratives

  Edward Wright Haile, Roadhouse Press, Champlain, Va., 1998

• John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages

  Helen Rountree, The University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Va., 2007

• Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland

  Donald Shomette, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2000

• Maritime Annapolis (MD): A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen

  Rosemary Williams, The History Press, 2009

• Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place

  John R. Wennersten, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1992

• Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763

  Lorena S Walsh, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2010

• Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson

  James D Rice, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2009

• Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807

  Donald Shomette, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1988

• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries, 1608-1978

  Donald Shomette, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1982

• Starting at Sea Level

  Jennifer Bodine, Foggy River Books, McLeod, Mont., 2007

• Susquehanna, River of Dreams

  Susan Q. Stranahan, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1995

• The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia

  James Wharton, Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration, Williamsburg, Va., 1957

• The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region

  Unknown, Library of Congress General Collection, 1600 - 1925

• The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society and Politics

  Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, N.Y., 1979

• The Discovery of the Chesapeake Bay: An Account of the Explorations of Captain John Smith in the Year 1608

  Frances d'A. Collings, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Md., 1998

• The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles

  John Smith, Unknown, London, 1624

• The History and Present State of Virginia

  Robert Beverley, Unknown, London, 1705

• The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay

  John R. Wennersten, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1981

• The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland

  Lois Green Carr and Lorena Walsh, William & Mary Quarterly, Williamsburg, Va., 1977

• The Powhatan Uprising of 1622: A Historical Study of Ethnocentrism and Cultural Conflict

  Frederick J. Fausz, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1977

• The Unnatural History of the Sea

  Callum Roberts, Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C., 2007

• The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake: A Reference Guide to Historic Sites in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia

  Ralph E Eshelman, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2010

• The Workboats of Smith Island

  Paula J. Johnson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1997

• This Was Chesapeake Bay

  Robert H. Burgess, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1963

• This Was Potomac River

  Frederick Tilp, Frederick Tilp,, Alexandria, Va., 1978

• Tidewater Time Capsule: History Beneath the Patuxent

  Donald Shomette, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1995

• Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era

  A. Pierce Middleton and Gregory A. Stiverson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1994

• Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia

  William Switala, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2004

• Vanishing Islands: A Story of History's "Invisible People" on Islands in the Chesapeake Bay-How They Lived and Worked and Played

  Frances Kolarek, Heritage Books, 2008

• Watermen

  Randall S. Peffer, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1985

Politics and Political History

• Charles County, Maryland, 1658-1705: A Study of Chesapeake Social and Political Structure

  by Lorena S. Walsh, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1978

• Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay

  by Howard Ernst, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2003

• Chesapeake Waters: Four Centuries of Controversy, Concern and Legislation

  by Steven G. Davidson, Jay G. Merwin Jr., John Capper, Garret Power and Frank R. Shivers Jr., Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1997

• Sprawl & Politics: The Inside Story of Smart Growth in Maryland

  by John Frece, State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., 2008

• The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action

  by Ned Tillman, Publishing Concepts, Baltimore, Md., 2009

• The Early Relations Between Maryland and Virginia

  by John Latané, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1895

• Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay

  by Tom Horton, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2003

Natural History

• A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Basin Species

  by Chesapeake Bay Program, Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, Md., 1998

• Assateague

  by William H. Wroten, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1986

• Bay Country: Reflections on the Chesapeake

  by Tom Horton, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1987

• Bayside Guide to Weather

  by Mark E. Jacoby, Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, Md., 1984

• Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

  by William W. Warner, Little Brown and Co., Boston, Mass., 1976

• Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva

  by Jane Scott, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1991

• Birdlife at Chincoteague and the Virginia Barrier Islands

  by Brooke Meanley, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1981

• Birds and Marshes of the Chesapeake Bay Country

  by Brooke Meanley, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1975

• Birds of the Chesapeake Bay

  by John Taylor, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1992

• Chesapeake Almanac: Following the Bay through the Seasons

  by John P. Williams, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1993

• Chesapeake Bay: Nature of the Estuary: A Field Guide

  by Christopher P. White, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1989

• Chesapeake Spring

  by John Taylor, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1998

• Chesapeake Waters

  by John Capper, Garret Power, Frank Shivers, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1983

• Concepts in Marine Pollution Measurements

  by Harris H. White, Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, Md., 1984

• Discovering the Chesapeake

  by Philip D. Curtin, Grace S. Brush and George W. Fisher, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2001

• Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay

  by Edward O. Murdy, Ray S. Birdsong and John A. Musick, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 1997

• Life in the Chesapeake Bay. An Illustrated Guide to the Fishes, Invertebrates, Plants, Birds and Other Animals of Bays and Inlets from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras

  by Alice Jane Lippson and Robert L. Lippson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1997

• Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Chesapeake Bay

  by Deane Winegar, Longstreet Press, Athens, Ga., 2000

• Oxygen Dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay: A Synthesis of Recent Research

  by David E. Smith, M. Leffler and G. Mackiernan, Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, Md., 1992

• Rivers of the Eastern Shore: Seventeen Maryland Rivers

  by Hulbert Footner, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1989

• The Assateague Ponies

  by Ronald R. Keiper, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1985

• The Bay: A Naturalist Discovers a Universe of Life Above and Below the Chesapeake

  by Gilbert C. Klingel, Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, N.Y., 1951

• The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

  by William B Cronin, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2005

• The Living Chesapeake

  by Jerry R. Schubel, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1981

• The Oyster

  by William K. Brooks, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1996

• The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 (Environmental History and the American South)

  by Christine Keiner, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., 2010

• The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay

  by John Wernnsten, John Wernnsten, 2007

• Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake

  by David W. Harp and Tom Horton, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2000

• Working the Chesapeake: Watermen on the Bay

  by Mark E. Jacoby, Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, Md., 1991

Bay Restoration

• Fight for the Bay: Why a Dark Green Environmental Awakening is Needed to Save the Chesapeake Bay

  by Howard Ernst, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2009

• Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States

  by Mary Doyle and Cynthia Drew, Island Press, D.C., 2008

• Saving the Bay. People Working for the Future of the Chesapeake

  by Anne E. Dorbin, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2001

• Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay

  by Tom Horton and William M. Eichbaum, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1991

Children's

• Awesome Chesapeake: A Kid's Guide to the Bay

  by David O. Bell, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1994

• Beddy Bye in the Bay

  by Priscilla Cummings, Schiffer Publishing, 2010

• Chadwick and the Garplegrungen

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1987

• Chadwick Forever

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1993

• Chadwick the Crab

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1988

• Chadwick's Wedding

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1989

• Chesapeake ABC

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2000

• Chesapeake Bay (Rookie Read-About Geography)

  by Kelly Bennett, Children's Press, Danbury, Conn., 2006

• Chesapeake Bay Walk

  by David O. Bell, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1998

• Chesapeake Kaleidoscope

  by Anne M. Hays and Harriet R. Hazleton, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1975

• Chesapeake: Fact, Fiction and Fun

  by Frederick and Fay Tilp, Heritage Books, Bowie, Md., 1998

• Crab Moon

  by Ruth Horowitz, Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass., 2000

• Finding Birds in the Chesapeake Marsh: A Child's First Look

  by Zora Aiken, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2001

• Meet Chadwick and his Chesapeake Bay Friends

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md. , 1999

• Oscar and Olive Osprey: A Family Takes Flight

  by Janie Suss, Synergy Books, Austin, Texas, 2009

• Sam: The Tale of a Chesapeake Bay Rockfish

  by Kristina Henry, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1998

• The Chadwick Coloring Book

  by Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1988

• Where Did All the Water Go?

  by Carolyn Stearns, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1998

Lighthouses

• Bay Beacons: Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay

  by Linda Turbyville, Eastwind Publishing, Trappe, Md., 1996

• Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses

  by Pat Vojtech, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1997

• Lightships of the United States of America, Volume II - Southeast

  by Thomas Schoenewolff, RoseDog Books, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2010

• Maryland's Lighthouses

  by Cathy Taylor, Arcadia Publishing, Chicago, Ill., 2008

• The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake

  by Robert De Gast, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1993

Boats and Boating

• Chesapeake Bay Buyboats

  by Larry Chowning, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2007

• Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes

  by M.V. Brewington, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1963

• Chesapeake Bay Schooners

  by Ann Jensen and Quentin Snediker, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1997

• Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks

  by Pat Vojtech, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1993

• Chesapeake Sails: A History of Yachting on the Bay

  by Richard Hendsen, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1999

• Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet

  by David C. Holly, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1994

• Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide

  by William Shellenberger, McGraw-Hill, Backlick, Ohio, 2001

• Exploring the Chesapeake in Small Boats

  by John P. Williams, Tidewater Publishers, Tidewater Publishers, 1992

• Guide to Cruising Chesapeake Bay (2010 Edition)

  by Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Annapolis, Md., 2010

• Maryland Workboats (Then and Now)

  by Byshe Hicks, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S.C., 2009

• Maryland's Skipjacks

  by David Berry, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S.C., 2008

• Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen

  by Christopher White, St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y., 2009

• Slow Motion: The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack

  by M. Kei, Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Md., 2008

• The Chesapeake Bay of Yore: Mainly About the Rowing and Sailing Craft

  by Frederick Tilp, Frederick Tilp, Alexandria, Va., 1982

• Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake

  by David C. Holly, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2000

• Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner

  by Geoffrey Footner, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 1998

Photography

• Baltimore Harbor: A Picture History

  by Robert Keith, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1991

• Between Ocean and Bay: A Celebration of the Eastern Shore

  by Jim Clark, Mountain Trail Press, Johnson City, Tenn., 2008

• Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country

  by A. Aubrey Bodine, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2005

• Chesapeake: Bay of Light: An Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay's Wild and Forgotten Places

  by Ian Plant and Tom Horton, Mountain Trail Press, Johnson City, Tenn., 2007

• Chesapeake: The Aerial Photography of Cameron Davidson

  by Cameron Davidson, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Va., 2011

• Flying Above Chesapeake Bay

  by Jake McGuire, Twin Lights Publishers, Rockport, Mass., 2008

• Maryland: Wonder and Light

  by Ian Plant, Mountain Trail Press, Johnson City, Tenn., 2005

• The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay

  by John Whitehead, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, Pa., 1987

• Virginia: Wonder and Light

  by Ian Plant and Jerry Greer, Mountain Trail Press, Johnson City, Tenn., 2005

• Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake

  by David Harp and Tom Horton, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2000