Western Wind, Eastern Shore
(johns hopkins university press, 1975)

This book is a narrative of de Gast's twenty-four day voyage in his sloop Slick Ca'm, which took him not only around the eastern shore of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, but behind its barrier island and into its rivers, creeks, and marshlands.

Enhancing the narrative are scores of lovely photographs taken, writes de Gast, "from the cockpit of my little sloop, usually under way, with my foot on the tiller and my hand on the camera."

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