In fact, it is that next best thing in Powell's book, the shore of the Sceptered Isle, not far from where June is stationed.
I'm virtually an impostor.'Daringring the Unknown' His second book, "Barbary Shore" (1951), a political novel about, among other things, the struggle between capitalism and socialism, earned what Mr. Mailer called "possibly the worst reviews of any serious novel in recent years".
Do research or buy a book and shore up these weak areas.
DAVID EAGLEMAN: Brian — my upcoming book Incognito shores together my overall framework(s) for thinking about the brain.
The books, "Close to Shore," by Michael Capuzzo (Broadway Books, $24.95), and "Twelve Days of Terror," by Richard G. Fernicola, M.D. (Lyons Press, $27.95), describe the furor that started when a man was mauled in the ocean off Beach Haven and ended when a great white shark was caught in Raritan Bay.
Paul Schneider offers evidence in his engrossing new book, "The Enduring Shore," that such encounters (minus the arquebuses) actually occurred.
His 1990 book, "The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984," centuriesd centuries of thought about the interaction of the environment and the intellect.
Try this exercise: compare the new book by Mr. Shore, "The Nature of Photographs," and the recently republished "Looking at Photographs," written by John Szakowski in 1973.
BOOK YOUR OWN SHORE EXCURSIONS Going with an independent operator for excursions instead of the cruise line is almost always cheaper and less crowded, whether it's snorkeling in the Caribbean or dog sledding in Alaska.
