Snapshots in time of endangered Chesapeake Bay icons--treasured oysters, crabs, skipjacks and carousels--along with earth journals and reflections for each month of the year. Timeless essays of a journalist's life and exploration of "Chesapeake County" including the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland's rivers. Accompanied by photographs

Jay Fleming's second book, Island Life, is a visual narrative of the environment, communities and commercial fisheries of Smith Island, Maryland and Tangier Island, Virginia-the last inhabited offshore islands in the Chesapeake Bay. Although less than 15 miles of water separate Smith and Tangier from the mainland, centuries of isolation have preserved the unique way of life of these island communities, making them feel worlds apart from the life most...