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As de Gast points out in his conclusion, these wonderful rivers offer beauty .

As de Gast points out in his conclusion, these wonderful rivers offer beauty, solitude, and adventure, and amazingly enough, all within a day's drive of half the population of the United States. - Virginia Librarian. Good-humored, observant, and knowledgeable, Robert de Gast is an ideal cruising companion on the historic rivers of the Chesapeake's lower Western Shore. In an unconventional small boat with a four-inch draft, he takes us where few other sailors can. Five Fair Rivers will delight all who love Tidewaterland.

In an unconventional small boat with a four-inch draft, he takes us where few .

In an unconventional small boat with a four-inch draft, he takes us where few other sailors can. Five Fair Rivers captures the beauty of unspoiled stretches of marsh, shore, and isle; the luxury of dry socks; and the pungence of the air surrounding the Westpoint, Virginia, paper plant. Here is an adventure that will appeal equally to sailors and arm-chair travelers alike.

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Robert de Gast was born in den Hague, Holland and came to the US at 22. He has spent his life around and on the Chesapeake, and raised a family of sailors. He tells a simple, innocent and inviting story about one of his many adventures. He describes the Chesapeake, the "five faire rivers" and other sights of beauty and wonder that Captain John Smith and the early settlers found and described in such exuberant terms - and reports that much is unchanged

sailing the James, York, Rappahannock, Potomac, and Patuxent.

sailing the James, York, Rappahannock, Potomac, and Patuxent. Published 1995 by Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore.

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Five Fair Rivers : Sailing the James, York, Rappahanock, Potomac and Patuxent.

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By Robert de Gast : Five Fair Rivers: Sailing the James, York, Rappahanock, Potomac, and Patuxent Five Fair Rivers: Sailing the James, York . love By S C Davis I have sailed the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries since 1971 in sailboats drawing 5 feet or more But de Gast makes me wish I could enter the scenic shallow Good humored observant and knowledgeable Robert de Gast is an ideal cruising companion on the historic rivers of the Chesapeake s lower Western Shore In an unconventional small boat.

Robert de Gast, a photographer whose 1970 book The Oystermen of the Chesapeake captured in harsh and unsentimental images the final days of America’s last fishing fleet under sail and is regarded as one of the finest depictions of the watermen who make their living there, died.

Robert de Gast, a photographer whose 1970 book The Oystermen of the Chesapeake captured in harsh and unsentimental images the final days of America’s last fishing fleet under sail and is regarded as one of the finest depictions of the watermen who make their living there, died Jan. 3 at a hospice center in Baltimore. He was 79. The cause was cancer, said a daughter, Sabrina Glaeser. Dutch by birth, Mr. de Gast spent most of his life as a freelance photojournalist and commercial photographer on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. He wrote and illustrated a half-dozen books, including one about.

Five Fair Rivers will delight all who love Tidewaterland

Five Fair Rivers will delight all who love Tidewaterland. - John BarthA devoted sailor, Robert de Gast takes his inspiration for these trips from Captain John Smith who, while exploring the Chesapeake in the early seventeenth century, found himself mesmerized by the magnificence and unexpected charms of the bay's "fayre and navigable rivers.

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