Life in the Chesapeake Bay

by Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson

2006 · Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

"The best-written and best-illustrated guide ever about a North American tidal estuary. It is the model for all future coastal nature guides." — Whole Earth Review Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research. This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers—year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen. "Handsome, generously illustrated . . . All of the Bay's richness is catalogued here." — The Washington Post Book World "A story book, a field guide and a reference work, and anyone interested in fishing, ecology, or our bay should own it." — The Baltimore Sun "The region's quintessential field and reference guide." — Chesapeake Life Magazine "One of the most popular, well written, and useful guides to the Chesapeake." — Northeastern Naturalist

Life along the Inner Coast

by Robert L. Lippson, Alice Jane Lippson

2009 · Univ of North Carolina Press

For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, Life along the Inner Coast is a guide to the plants, animals, and habitats found in one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. It is a valuable resource for naturalists, students, and anyone who lives or vacations along the Atlantic inner coast. Southern Gateways Guide is a registered trademark of the University of North Carolina Press