Norfolk: The First Four Centuries

By Peter C. Stewart and Thomas C. Parramore

Book Overview

The first comprehensive history of Norfolk to appear since 1930, Norfolk: The First Four Centuries tells the story of America's largest maritime port from the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a Chiskiack man in 1561 to the city's late twentieth-century concerns, including pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813915570
• ISBN13: 9780813915579
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 507 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher