William Sargent: 3 books
The House on Ipswich Marsh
Exploring the Natural History of New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit...
Crab Wars
A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Surviving almost unmolested for 300 million years, the horseshoe crab is now the object of an intense legal and ethical struggle involving marine biologists, environmentalists, US government officials, biotechnologists, and international corporations. The source of this friction is the discovery 25...
Plum Island
4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it was only the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between man and nature on this fragile barrier beach. Plum Island takes readers to the core of...