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In this enchanting book, John R. Stilgoe takes us on a tour of the seacoast, evoking its sights, sounds, and textures, and showing how it illuminates issues of landscape and American culture. Telling fascinating stories of fishing boats and lighthouses, wharfs and piers, quicksand and buried treasures, this book is ideal beach reading and a guidebook for anyone intrigued by the shore.
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Landscape historian Stilgoe presents an intimate look at the Massachusetts seacoast.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Yale University Press (edition New edition), 1996
ISBN 10: 0300060173
ISBN 13: 9780300060171
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