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Greater Hampton Roads Street Map Book, 2007 edition "Hampton Roads" is the metro area that includes the cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton and Williamsburg. Large scale atlas with street level detail showing Zip Codes, block numbers, schools, hospitals, points of interest, shopping centers, parks and much more. Fully indexed. Enlargements of Colonial Williamsburg, Norfolk, downtown Hampton, and Yorktown also shown. The level of detail is wonderful.
Norfolk: the First Four Centuries The story of America's largest maritime port from the first contact between a Spanish sailor and an American Indian Chiskiack man in 1561 to the city in the late 20th century. Norfolk's harbor made it an early refuge for sailors against the threat of Atlantic pirates and storms, and later gave it natural advantages as a seaport. Incorporated as a town in 1680, Norfolk has survived epidemics, hurricanes, total destruction in the Revolutionary War, and occupation in the Civil War to become one of Virginia's largest cities and the world's foremost naval base. Includes the lives and contributions of hundreds of the city's little-known citizens, including women, African Americans and other minorities, as well as more famous people. Very readable; even amusing in spots. 528 pages.
Frommer's Virginia This is an accurate and up-to-date guide to attractions, lodging, restaurants, and transportation for the entire state of Virginia. The Norfolk section is 13 pages. Useful hotel and restaurant reviews. Includes prices for everything and coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. This book is of particular interest if you're traveling throughout the state -- to Richmond, Charlottesville, Arlington National Cemetery, small towns, Shenandoah National Park, or Civil War battlefields. Good day-trips from Norfolk include the Eastern Shore, Virginia Beach and Williamsburg.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Virginia Coast Curtis Badger is a well-known naturalist and photographer from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. His book will give you an enthusiastic interest in that special place where the land meets the sea. Among Badger's goals is to draw the observer outdoors onto the beaches and tidal flats of the Virginia coast to experience its rich natural diversity firsthand. And foot first - feel the mud between your toes on the tidal flats at Chincoteague, walk the sandy beach at Back Bay, pedal a bike along the Cape Henry Trail at First Landing State Park. Informative as a guidebook - complete with sections on Virginia's primary coastal wilderness areas and appendices listing where to go and what to look for - it also serves as a natural history primer, offering clear and concise chapters on the ecological, historical, and botanical background of the region. For the parent adventuring with a curious child or the experienced birder in new territory, the weekend wanderer or the seasoned naturalist. 128 pages. Paperback.
Journey on the James: Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia Winner of the 9th annual Southern Environmental Law Center Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award (in Literary non-fiction) for outstanding writing on the southern environment. From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Norfolk, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth- century navy. In 1998, Earl Swift landed an assignment from the Virginian Pilot newspaper to travel the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river had whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself--he hoped not literally--in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this chronicle of three weeks in a plastic canoe and 400 years in the life of Virginia. Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay.