REDFeather Book Collections

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An oyster wants to enlist the help of minnow fish friend to help clean their habitat, the Chesapeake Bay. Learn how they succeed. “You don’t understand,” said Olly. “I want to do something important.” “Important?” said Mr. Oyster. “Yes,” Olly explained....

$29.95

A fascinating account of the search for Commodore Joshua Barney’s Chesapeake Flotilla that was lost beneath the Patuxent River following a battle with the British during the War of 1812. Years ago, few people understood the value of the submerged...

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Since its discovery by Captain John Smith in 1608, the Nanticoke has never been particularly hospitable to the outsider. Flowing thirty-six miles from its source above Seaford, Delaware, to the Chesapeake Bay below Salisbury on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, it is...

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Ron Edwards was born in Australia in 1930 and brought up in the country where small farmers still plowed with horses and harvested their half acres with sickles and scythes, and larger properties relied on the annual visit of the...

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Cuddle with the Chadwick the Crab plush toy as you read one of the nine books from the Chadwick series by Priscilla Cummings! First published in 1986, Chadwick the Crab introduces young readers to this charismatic crustacean and a host...

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A guide on how to braid simple leather projects, by the expert who made leather whips for the Indiana Jones movies.  In this book, David Morgan, the expert who made the whips for the Indiana Jones movies, shows how to...

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Suppose you made young ones laugh with rhymes that fueled in them a fundamental love of books and reading. Suppose that experience assisted in bringing about a monumental change in the next generation’s view of reading. Suppose paints reading as...

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Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution tells the story of Marylanders who could not engage in the passionate rebellion that was breaking out all around them. Although most were nearly as disillusioned with England as their rebel counterparts, the loyalists...

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Essential Seamanship presents, in abbreviated form, the most important and practical elements of seamanship and nautical knowledge needed by today’s small boat skipper. It will serve aboard any vessel as a ready, up-to-date reference of essential information in condensed and...

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Thirty years have passed since the 1975 publication of Robert H. Burgess’s classic Chesapeake Sailing Craft, and while the original edition of this book has been out of print for many years, this new expanded edition brings alive the author’s...

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Beneath the back steps, by a rock in the shade, Beetle Boddiker lives in the house that he made. A jumble of sticks and a tumble of leaves, It’s a simple bug house. But don’t step on it, please! Beetle...

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A century ago, great flocks of waterfowl darkened the skies, and duck hunting had primarily one purpose: to put food on the table. It was an era when such carvers as Nathan Cobb, Elmer Crowell, and Harry V.N. Shourds created...

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“A hundred years ain’t such a very long time on the Eastern Shore,” local farmers and watermen used to say, and that is a telling refrain. Past and present mix easily on the Shore, and, in this respect, as well...

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What would you do if faced with a school of sharks in a feeding frenzy? Find out in this book, unquestionably the most authoritative compact guide to the world of underwater animals that are poisonous, venomous, and electric. It is...

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Fiberglass Repair, Second Edition is filled with easily accessed information, all aimed at giving a determined boat owner the necessary skills and the confidence to tackle typical fiberglass repairs, using either polyester or epoxy resin. In every boating area, hundreds...

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The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring addresses anchoring systems, techniques, and permanent moorings for boats from twelve feet to eighty feet in length. It covers monohulls, multihulls, light displacement sailboats, cruisers, sportfishers, passagemakers, and workboats. In short, it is...

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A determined boy and a wild horse from Assateague Island coming together leads to friendship, opportunities, and a promising new life for both. In this book for young readers, author Harvey Hagman crafts a poignant tale about a determined boy,...

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This book is designed to serve as a textbook for students and a reference for today’s engineering officers, port engineers, superintendent engineers, and other maritime professionals. Steam turbine propulsion systems are included, but the coverage has been reduced in recognition...

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A comprehensive history of knots and ropemaking that covers thousands of knots, with how-to instructions for tying and making useful and decorative items with rope.  When this book first published in 1939, it quickly became—and has remained for more than...

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This is an enlarged edition of a work that has been accepted as the most complete exposition of model shipbuilding. The book is unusual in its attention to minute and authentic detail, supplying more than a thousand diagrams. Included are...

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An entertaining children's picture book that celebrates Groundhog Day. Griffin is a very special little groundhog Mother Nature chooses for an extraordinary responsibility—awakening the other animals to welcome spring. His friends are awed by Griffin’s courage and some of them...

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Shiphandling with Tugs, Second Edition is the most comprehensive text available for the mariner who wants to learn how to safely and effectively operate tugs in assisting ships to and from their berths in ports and anchorages. Captain Jeffrey Slesinger...

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Built on the shores of the Delaware Bay in 1925, Sequoia is a Trumpy-designed 104-foot wooden motor yacht that has hosted eight U.S. presidents and has become a Chesapeake Bay icon. Giles M. Kelly served as the yacht’s skipper from...