Chessie: A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster
Author:   Eric A. Cheezum
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9781421449050


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 July 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Eric A. Cheezum
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781421449050


ISBN 10:   1421449056
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 July 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Catching Monster Fever 2. A Change of Scene 3. Dissecting the Frew Film 4. A Serpent in Eden 5. Creating a (State) Monster 6. A Chesapeake Bay Story 7. Diminishing Returns 8. Stand By Your Manatee 9. Familiar Friend Notes Index

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Readers will find themselves swept up in Chessie's mystery and get an indelible environmental history lesson in the process. —Contingent Magazine [Chessie] finally brings together the various accounts and suppositions and promotional efforts, and presents them in a single worthy, well-researched work. —Washington Independent Review of Books


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Eric A. Cheezum is an independent historian and adjunct history professor at Chesapeake College. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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