[PDF.74cf] Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England

Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England

[PDF.if55] Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England

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 | #285436 in Books |  2014-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.50 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Hymn to Narragansett Bay|By Coco Bananas|After reading this fine book, it's abundantly clear that Christopher Pastore has a strong affinity for his topic: Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. The impermanence, and promise, of this place between the land and the sea comes through in page after page. Pastore's research is copious, but his prose doesn't suffer for it. I learned a g| |With a writer’s flair and a scholar’s insight, Pastore has transformed the muck of the tidal zone into a splendid meditation on the historical transformation of the New England coast. This is a book for beach-combers and sailors, and for eve

One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic world, beginning with the first European settlement in 1636 and ending with the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. Download Now