The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay / John R. Wennersten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wennersten, John R., 1941-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oyster fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--History.

Oyster fisheries.

Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--History.

Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).

Maryland--Boundaries--Virginia.

Maryland.

Virginia--Boundaries--Maryland.

Virginia.

Boundaries.

Atlantic Ocean--Chesapeake Bay.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xii, 147, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Centreville, Md. : Tidewater Publishers, 1981.

Contents:

Follow the water

Flush times on the Chesapeake

Hunter Davidson & the oyster police

Paddies & water Arabs

Hell on the half-shell

Hard times

Gunfire on the Potomac

The vanishing oystermen

Appendix I: The Maryland Oyster Navy-1891

Appendix II. Output of Maryland Oysters, 1839-1910 (in bushels).

Notes:

First edition, 1981; Second printing, 1982.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Kislak copy is "Second printing, 1982".

Kislak copy imperfect: pages ii-iii, vi-ix, x-xi, 2-3, 6-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-19 blank.

Other Format:

Online version: Wennersten, John R., 1941- Oyster wars of Chesapeake Bay.

ISBN:

0870332635 :

9780870332630

OCLC:

7551367