Delmarva stands for Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and is the name
for the peninsula that extends downbetween Chhesapeake Bay and the
Atlantic ocean. It contains the entire state of Delaware and the
easternmost parts of Maryland and Virginia (Assateague and
Chincoteague Islands.)

Not really my cup of tea - a book on the various animals and plants
living in the various habitats on the peninsusla. But interesting
and sad reading to learn of how many species of plants and animals
were - and are being - destroyed by mankind's depredations.

It is perhaps hard to criticize people of the 1600s-1800s for the
mass destruction they brought about, but from the 1900s onward
surely common sense should have told them that they were destroying
things that could not be replaced.

I'm one of those people who think animals have a right to live - and
I care more for animals than people in the sense that animals don't
have the brains to save themselves should their coastline become
polluted or their bodies get stuck in a fishing net. Meanwhile,
human beings have brains and should be able to see the consequences
of their action - from overfishing to destruction of aqifers to
their own overpopulation of this planet.

Anyway, people who are interested in nature who live on the east
coast will probably enjoy the book...meantime I'm glad to be done
with it and will be moving onto one of my aviation books now... so
yes...the work of saving the environment - thought I praise it -
will have to be done by someone else.... typical, I know...