Selected Bibliography of Bay Literature

Arthur, Robert P. Hymn to the Chesapeake. Virginia: ROAD Publishers, 1996.

Barth, John. The Floating Opera. New York: Bantam Books, 1967, 1978.

The Sot-Weed Factor. New York: Random House, 1960, 1987.

The Tidewater Tales. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

The Friday Book. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991, 2001.

Blair, C.H. and W.D. Ansel. Chesapeake Bay Notes and Sketches.

Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1970.

Branch, Michael and Daniel Philippon eds. The Height of Our Mountains:

Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore: The John's Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Byron, Gilbert. Done Crabbin' Noah Leaves the River.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,1990.

These Chesapeake Men. Vermont: Driftwind Press, 1942.

The Lord's Oyster. (Tradition Press, 1967) Republished, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Capper, J.G. Power and F.R. Shivers. Chesapeake Waters: Pollution, Public Health

and Public Opinion, 1607-1972. Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.

Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1998-2000.

New York: BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.

Cook, Ebenezer. "The Sotweed Factor" Shoremen: An Anthology of Eastern Shore

Prose and Verse. Ed. Harold D. Jopp and R.H. Ingersoll.
Maryland: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.

Cummings, Priscilla. Chadwick the Crab. Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1986.

Curtin, Philip D., Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher, eds. Discovering the Chesapeake:

the history of an ecosystem. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Davison, Steven G. ed., Chesapeake Waters: Four Centuries of Controversy,

Concern, and Legislation. Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1997.

Douglas, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas:

An American Slave, Written by Himself. New York: Signet Classic, 1968, 1997.
(First published in 1845 by "The Anti-Slavery Office," Boston, Mass.)

Duke, Maurice, ed. Chesapeake Bay Voices: Narratives from Four Centuries.

Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1993.

Gear, Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear. People of the Mist.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1997.

Geiger, Virginia. Maryland Our Maryland. NY: University Press of America, 1987.

Harwood, Richard, editor. Talking Tidewater: Writers on the Chesapeake Bay.

Chestertown, Maryland: The Literary House Press, 1996.

Hodges, Elizabeth. What the River Means.Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998.

Horn, James J. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth

Century Chesapeake. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Horton, Tom and William M. Eichbaum. Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay.

Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991. Rewritten and re-issued Horton, 2003.

Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake.

New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Bay Country. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Jacoby, Mark. Working the Chesapeake: Waterman on the Bay.

College Park, MD: Maryuland Sea Grant College, 1991.

Junkin, Tim. The Waterman: A Novel of the Chesapeake Bay.

North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999.

Klingel, Gilbert C. The Bay. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Leggett, Vincent O. The Chesapeake Bay Through Ebony Eyes. Maryland: Bay Media, 1999.

Mencken, H.L. Newspaper Days. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1968.

Predjudices: A Selection. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Michner, James. Chesapeake. Reissue, Mass Market Paperback, 1990.

Minichiello, J. Kent and Anthony W. White. From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands:

An Audubon Naturalist Reader. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Pastan, Linda. Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.

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

Poag, C. Wylie. Chesapeake Invader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Salamanca, J.R. Embarkation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

Schubel, J. Thomas. The Living Chesapeake.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Shivers, Frank B. Jr. Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards: A Literary History.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Smith, John. The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631),

3 vols. ed. Philip J. Barbour. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Stranahan, Susan Q. Susquehanna, River of Dreams.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Svenson, Peter. Green Shingles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Taylor, John W. Chesapeake Spring. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Tilghman, Christopher. Mason's Retreat. New York: Random House, 1996.

In a Father's Place. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1990.

The Way People Run. New York: Picador, 2000.

Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976.

Wennersten, John R. The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography.

Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2001.

Whitehead, John Hurt. The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay.

Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1987.

Special thanks to Susan Rosen of Anne Arundel Community College for her work on this bibliography.