Books Cruising The Chesapeake a Gunkholders Guide . The Chesapeake Bay is the largest inland tidal body of water on the eastern seaboard offering a wonderful combination of unspoiled natural beauty timeless history lively urban areas and easy access. Accurate and up-to-date navigational information in this thoroughly revised guide pilots the reader into the Chesapeakes numerous creeks and coves gunkholes and into practically every other point of interest on the bay. A portrait of the bay its history its people and its wildlife. Authors William H. Shellenberger McGraw-Hill Companies 409pp