{"product_id":"cove-point-on-the-chesapeake-the-beacon-the-bay-and-the-dream-9781734886634","title":"Cove Point on the Chesapeake: The Beacon, The Bay, and the Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooker 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCove 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA resilient lighthouse illuminates this rare spot on earth and a century of its inhabitants, much as does the fetching prose of veteran journalist Booker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooker, Carol McCabe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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. After graduation from Georgetown University law school, she became legal counsel to public and international broadcasting entities: Assistant General Counsel, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Deputy General Counsel, National Public Radio. She was also General Counsel, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; General Counsel, United States Commission on Civil Rights; General Counsel for the environmental giant Greenpeace.She has savored the shores of Cove Point for the past 40 years, waking to its awesome sunrises, fishing its waters, and absorbing the wonders of the Chesapeake Bay in all its glory. This book, she confesses, is a love story.","brand":"New Bay Books LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646129443090,"sku":"9781734886634","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7a66c8d-38e5-4669-a886-d39babf823b3.jpg?v=1733170325","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cove-point-on-the-chesapeake-the-beacon-the-bay-and-the-dream-9781734886634","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}