It also has the deep currents and satisfactions of a magnificent novel.' -John Casey, National Book Award-winning author of Spartina 'Precision is compassion in Earl Swift’s portrait of an island, its culture and locales and its future. Wonderful, poetic, stirring writing.' -Callum Roberts, author of The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea ' Chesapeake Requiem is a riveting documentary. The story of Tangier Island, so beautifully described by Earl Swift, will soon be repeated in a place near you. Swift’s ability to truly embed himself into the community, combined with his gorgeous prose, make for a truly remarkable book that comes not a moment too soon.' -Beth Macy, author of Factory Man, Truevine, and Dopesick 'An elegy to a disappearing way of life and a rumination on the coming global upheaval from climate change driven sea level rise. Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea 'Deeply moving and well-reported. He has written not a farewell but a commencement, not an insular but a universal story, one we all should know, of challenge, forbearance, and possibilities.' -Jack E. Perhaps it will inspire some of us living safe on higher ground to more action on behalf of those at risk.' -Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature 'Earl Swift is as much a master of crafting words on the page as capturing the instructive voices on this shrinking Chesapeake island. Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem is a tale of our time, movingly told. With Chesapeake Requiem, his gift is on fine display.a big story about a small place, a canary-in-the-coalmine tale that's sad and beautiful, haunting and true.' - Hampton Sides, author of Americana, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground 'This is a powerful book. Swift masterfully reveals Tangier as it is-a proud but struggling community of fewer than 500 people trying to hold on to what they can amid unending hardship and isolation.' -Steven Ginsberg in the Washington Post 'Earl Swift has long shown a talent for locating the big and poignant stories that lay hidden in plain sight within the day-to-day lives of unsung Americans. Carter, Bloomberg 'An intimate, meticulously reported and captivating account of life on the island. Every page is vivid and rich.A model for what serious reportage should be.' -Stephen L. 'My choice for the best nonfiction book of 2018.I can't remember a book in recent years that taught me quite so much.

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