The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia

James Wharton

Long before oyster houses and crab shacks, the Chesapeake fed Virginia's first colonists with astonishing plenty. James Wharton recounts fishing in colonial Virginia, the nets and weirs and the teeming waters that sustained a new world. A lively slice of American history told through its earliest catch. Cast a line into the abundant waters of the colonial Chesapeake.