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As spring ushers in warmer weather, the Johns Hopkins University Press is looking toward the outdoors with three new titles. In Chesapeake Spring, naturalist John Taylor captures life on the bay as it emerges from winter's slumber. Taylor's 65 color illustrations are accompanied by entries from a journal kept as he roamed Maryland and Virginia. Publication date: April 17. The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley brings together almost four centuries of writings by 70 authors. Edited by Michael P. Branch and Daniel J. Philippon, the book takes its title from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. A critical introduction explores the concept of bioregionalism and the form of nature writing. Publication date: April 6. In Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805, Barbara Wells Sarudy re-creates the long-lost gardens of the region's past, using historic maps, travelers' accounts, diaries and paintings, including those on the backs of Baltimore chairs. Publication date: June 5.
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