SC-Water and Light
Stephen Harrigan. Random House (NY), $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-87156-453-5
A sparkling account of the underwater world off the coast of Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean. (Mar.)
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Reviewed on: 02/28/1994
Genre: Nonfiction
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