Earl Swift (Author of Chesapeake Requiem)

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Longtime journalist Earl Swift is the author of the forthcoming ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: THE LUNAR ROVER AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE FINAL MOON LANDINGS, due from HarperCollins in July 2021.

He is also the author of seven other books, among them the New York Times best seller CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM (HarperCollins, 2018), the story of an island town threatened with extinction by the very water that has sustained it for 240 years; AUTO BIOGRAPHY (HarperCollins, 2014), a narrative journey through postwar America told through a single old car and the fourteen people who've owned it; THE BIG ROADS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), an armchair history of the U.S. highway system and its effects, physical and cultural, on the nation it binds; JOURNEY ON T ...more

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	Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island 4.10 avg rating — 2,944 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways 3.89 avg rating — 1,831 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings 4.20 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery 4.01 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream 4.06 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey on the James: Three Weeks through the Heart of Virginia 4.13 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where They Lay: A Forensic Expedition in the Jungles of Laos 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tangierman's Lament: and Other Tales of Virginia 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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― Earl Swift, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

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“spartina”
― Earl Swift, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

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“Prominent magazine editor and opinion shaper Albert Shaw noted that bad roads 鈥渁re so disastrously expensive that only a very rich country, like the United States, can afford them.”
― Earl Swift, The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

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