In Cove Point on the Chesapeake: The Beacon, the Bay, and the Dream, Carol Booker tells the story of how nature and human desire define a singular place along storied waters.

Booker writes of heroes, scoundrels and the families who populated a tiny waterfront community, once known mainly for shipwrecks and treacherous riptides, that became a World War II training ground, the locale for hunting buried treasure, and later a cog in the global energy trade with a natural gas plant.

In its pages are tales of exploration and heroism, sports and tragedies including a riptide referred to as the devil's grasp by a man who survived.

Cove Point on the Chesapeake tells of the resolve of a displaced Russian princess to rebuild her culture along the the nation's largest estuary. With solid reporting and interviews, Booker writes of the cunning of the developer who mapped the marshy shores and lured Washingtonians to a little-known stretch of shoreline for extraordinary fishing and easy living.

A resilient lighthouse illuminates this rare spot on earth and a century of its inhabitants, much as does the fetching prose of veteran journalist Booker.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	222
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	New Bay Books LLC
Fecha de Publicación	2021-09-11
Dimensiones	8.25" x 5.5" x 0.47" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No

Booker, Carol

Carol Booker is a graduate of the City University of New York and Georgetown University Law Center.As a journalist, she worked as a writer/editor/reporter for the Voice of America, and freelanced in Africa for Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting, covering the Nigerian Civil War and other stories in ten African nations. Her articles and/or photography have also been published in The Washington Post, and Ebony and Jet magazines.As an attorney, Ms. Booker served as: Assistant General Counsel: Corporation for Public BroadcastingDeputy General Counsel: National Public RadioGeneral Counsel: Neighborhood Reinvestment CorporationGeneral Counsel: United States Commission on Civil RightsGeneral Counsel: GreenpeaceGeneral Counsel: Broadcasting Board of Governors (U.S. International Broadcasting agency)