Those who know and love the Chesapeake will find the bay they
treasure on the pages of Water's Way: Life along the Chesapeake.
The story of one of North America's most fascinating regions
unfolds through the sensitive photographs and prose of two men who
have studied the Chesapeake all their lives. Photographer David W.
Harp and writer Tom Horton vividly portray how, as Horton writes,
"the edges where land and water meet charm us all, from watermen to
watercolorists and beachcombers to duck hunters."
Water's Way will guide you to "those rare, hidden nooks of the
bay country where nature still appears as glorious and untrammeled
as it did a thousand years ago." It will also take you to less
hidden, but equally intriguing sites within the Chesapeake's reach
as Harp and Horton depict the worlds of both nature and humans.
An intimate knowledge of and an unwavering reverence for the bay
pervade Water's Way. Harp and Horton are as attuned to the romance
that still clings to the Chesapeake as they are to the realities
that inspire and threaten it. In a time when the region faces
tremendous changes and challenges, Water's Way is neither strident
nor sentimental. Rather, it is suffused with the fundamental
respect for the bay which Harp and Horton see as key to its
survival.
"Dave Harp's photography and Tom Horton's text are nothing short
of inspirational. Through the combination of each man's art,
Water's Way communicates the beauty and essence of the Chesapeake
like no other book. It conveys the very reasons why I have
dedicated my life's work to saving the bay." -- William Baker,
President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
"Three forces have been hard at work in the making of
thisexquisite piece: the gentle and informed eye of Dave's camera,
Tom's inspirited love affair with our language, and the mystery
they conspire in, creating a vivid picture and genuine portrait of
a life that is greater than ourselves." -- Tom Wisner, author of
Chesapeake Born
"Harp's photographs, gorgeously reproduced here... have, I
think, finally surpassed the late Aubrey Bodine's famously romantic
shots of the Chesapeake." -- John Goodspeed, Easton
Star-Democrat
"Tom Horton has a poet's touch and a realist's frankness as he
writes of the delicate ecology of this great aquatic system in
chapters whose subjects range from the role of marshes to the life
of the watermen to the growing pressures of urban development...
This book is a singing tribute to the bay." -- Islands Magazine
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