The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia

by James Wharton

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1957

Reviews

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Not for most people (it'd be boring I imagine) but I found it super interesting. It's written in the 1950s and uses primary source excerpts to tell the story of fishing and it's tangents around the Chesapeake all the way up to the Potomac (but no further north).

[Christopher]

This was an interesting history of fishing in the Chesapeake Bay in colonial times. The author relies heavily on written material from the period, perhaps overly so, as after a while it starts to break the flow and becomes a bit tedious. Other than that drawback, it was a nice read. The picture that Wharton paints of aquatic abundance makes you wish that you could be fishing 300 years ago, just for a day.