Perfect sequel to "My Maryland," Bodine's best-selling pictorial tribute to the Free State, and his latest, "The Face of Maryland." But this is more than a sequel: it is the first published photographic documentary of the Bay. A beautiful and graphic story of the "Mediterranean of America"...its tributaries and shores which reach into Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia. In more than 35 years of capturing the Bay in its many moods, Bodine has made thousands of photographs of this alluring body of water. His finest appear in "Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater." "...more than a collection of superb photographs...a book with a theme, interpreting with fidelity not only the mood but also the meaning and significance of the Chesapeake Bay country."-RACHEL CARSON