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  <default-description>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.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book to refer to at the bedside in the middle of a cold rainy April night in Massachusetts. The author is local here, and a naturalist. Walking alongshore John makes observations about our natural seashore life, particularly in warmer weather, that make for relaxing winter dreams.  A very slow rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22479662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got rather inebriated, visited a bookstore, and now I have a copy of Alongshore.  Guess I'll have to read it now. ]]></body>
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