Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

An excellent, soulful, and timely portrait of the two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Technology, Bloomberg, Christian Technology Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus

‘BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE.’ – Hampton Edges “GORGEOUS. A REMARKABLE Publication.” – Beth Macy & about Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Isle nbsp;’GRIPPING. FANTASTIC.’ – Outdoors ‘Fascinating.’ – Washington Post ‘POWERFUL.’ – Bill McKibben ‘VIVID. HARROWING AND MOVING.’ – Research ‘A MASTERFUL NARRATIVE.’ – Christian Research Monitor ‘THE Ideal NONFICTION Reserve OF THE YEAR.’ – Stephen L. Carter/Bloomberg

A Washington Post bestseller An Indie Next List selection An NPR All Things Considered and Axios ‘Reserve Club’ pick

Tangier Isle, Virginia, is a community unique on the American panorama. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Trend, the small sliver of mud houses 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging living, with one feet in the 21st hundred years and another in times long passed. They may be separated off their countrymen by the country’s largest estuary, and a twelve-mile vessel trip across often tempestuous water-the same water that for decades has made Tangier’s fleet of little fishing boats for sale a chief resource for the rightly valued Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and provides lent the isle its claim to fame as the softshell crab capital of the world.

Yet for most of its very long history, and in spite of its tenacity, Tangier is disappearing. The very water which has lengthy sustained it is erasing the isle day by day, wave by wave. It has dropped two-thirds of its property since 1850, and still its shoreline retreats by fifteen foot a year-meaning this storied place will probably succumb first among U.S. cities to the consequences of climate change. Professionals reckon that, barring heroic involvement by the government, islanders could be pressured to abandon their house within twenty-five years. Meanwhile, the graves of their forebears are becoming sprung open up by encroaching tides, and the traditional and deeply religious Tangiermen ponder the end times.

Chesapeake Requiem is an intimate go through the island’s history, present and tenuous future, by an acclaimed journalist who spent a lot of the past two years living among Tangier’s people, crabbing and oystering with its watermen, and observing its long traditions and odd methods. What emerges is the poignant tale of a global which has, quite almost, gone by-and a leading-edge survey for the coming fate of countless coastal communities.