num_pages: 456
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.
language: English
title: Alongshore
titlecomplete: Alongshore
ratings_count: 34
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: PROSE Award
category: Arts, Literature & Language
publisher: Yale University Press