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Author: Jack Brubaker
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 25.40cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.708kg
ISBN: 9780271023366
ISBN 10: 0271023368
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 September 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
Brubaker's carefully researched and skillfully written volume [is] a fascinating read for anyone needing a reminder of how much a river can affect human lives.
Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake is a fascinating, well written, highly recommended treatise and would serve as an admirable model to writing about and exploring the histories of other major American rivers. --Midwest Book Review
Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake [is] doubly welcome, for its own considerable virtues and for filling in so many of the blanks in our knowledge of a river that plays a far larger role in this part of the country than most of us realize. . . . Brubaker s meticulous and loving description of the river should do much to heighten our appreciation of this secret treasure. . . . [U]niversity-press publishing at its absolute best. Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake [is] doubly welcome, for its own considerable virtues and for filling in so many of the blanks in our knowledge of a river that plays a far larger role in this part of the country than most of us realize. . . . Brubaker's meticulous and loving description of the river should do much to heighten our appreciation of this secret treasure. . . . [U]niversity-press publishing at its absolute best. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake [is] doubly welcome, for its own considerable virtues and for filling in so many of the blanks in our knowledge of a river that plays a far larger role in this part of the country than most of us realize. . . . Brubaker's meticulous and loving description of the river should do much to heighten our appreciation of this secret treasure. . . . [U]niversity-press publishing at its absolute best. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World If you have time this summer for only one nonfiction book, this is to beat a drum for Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake. . . . Jack Brubaker is superbly informed. --James H. Bready, Baltimore Sun This beautifully written and designed volume is the best book I've ever read about the Susquehanna River, a subject dear to my heart. Geology, archaeology, sociology, ecology, biology and many other areas of academia come to life in Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake, which seems to me a real life saga that reads more colorfully and memorably than many an acclaimed novel. --Eileen Graham, Harrisburg Patriot News The title of Jack Brubaker's Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake is a bit of a tongue-twister, but the book itself is an exemplary work of regional history that gives the most important river of the Mid-Atlantic its due. --Jonathan Yardly, Washington Post Book World Enhanced with more than 70 maps and illustrations, Down The Susquehanna To The Chesapeake is a fascinating, well written, highly recommended treatise and would serve as an admirable model to writing about and exploring the histories of other major American rivers. --Midwest Book Review [Jack Brubaker] offers an intimate view of life along the East Coast's largest river by layering geology on history on ecology on travelogue. --Jo-Ann Greene, Lancaster Sunday News Brubaker's carefully researched and skillfully written volume [is] a fascinating read for anyone needing a reminder of how much a river can affect human lives. --Rick Marsi, Binghampton Press and Sunday Bulletin There have been dozens of books written about the Susquehanna River, the largest river on the East Coast of the United States, and the river that delivers half of the freshwater needed by the Chesapeake Bay to maintain its ecological balance. But perhaps none is more engaging than Jack Brubaker's Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake (Penn State Press, 2002), mainly because it tells us so much more about the river's history--both natural and human--than we've ever known before. --Erica L. Shames, Susquehanna Life Magazine Jack Brubaker, editorial page editor and a columnist for the Lancaster New Era, may have written the ultimate book about the Susquehanna River. Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake, published by Penn State University Press, is a paean to the largest river on the East Coast. --Caroline Terenzini, Centre Daily Times (CDT) Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake is a first rate history and environmental saga. Brubaker not only captures the sweep of eons of time; he also zeroes in on tiny details which must have taken endless time to find and put together. --Gerald S. Lestz, Strasburg Weekly News Captures the charm--and violence--of the Chesapeake Bay's only indispensable tributary. . . . Doubly welcome, for its own considerable virtues and for filling in so many of the blanks in our knowledge of a river that plays a far larger role in this part of the country than most of us realize. . . . Brubaker's meticulous and loving description of the river should do much to heighten our appreciation of this secret treasure. . . . [U]niversity-press publishing at its absolute best. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Author Information
Jack Brubaker is a columnist for the Lancaster New Era. His previous books include The Last Capital: Danville, Virginia, and the Final Days of the Confederacy (1979; 1996) and Hullabaloo Nevonia: An Anecdotal History of Student Life at Franklin and Marshall College (1987).
