Tom Horton

This is a wonderful book. It's somewhat dated but many of the prophesies have come true. It's a beautiful display of my home so near the Chesapeake Bay. The photographs are amazing. I learned a lot about all the magnificent blessings that come from the bay, food for the body and the soul. We need to protect the remaining wetlands and marshes before they disappear entirely.

This is almost a very good book about the Chesapeake Bay, but Horton the journalist's literary ambitions and overreach seriously mar a few of the essays. Fortunately not most, and it's got some good information (albeit dated - 1987) and a few decent yarns. Worth the read for those interested, but you have to skim over some stuff even a sensible blue crab wouldn't touch.

43 p.