Alongshore
John R. Stilgoe. Yale University Press, $29 (456pp) ISBN 978-0-300-06017-1
Landscape historian Stilgoe presents an intimate look at the Massachusetts seacoast. (July)
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Reviewed on: 02/19/1996
Genre: Nonfiction
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