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...Sunset on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Everyone has his own favorite image of the beaches that border most of the U.S. In The Wild Shores of North America (Knopf; 240 pages; $35), Ann and Myron Sutton manage to capture nearly all of them. Beginning in the icebound Arctic, they take the armchair beachcomber on a scenic tour down the East Coast, past Cape Cod and the islands, along the perilous shoals of the Carolinas, through the lost waterways of the Everglades and Louisiana bayous, then up the West Coast from the desert sands of Baja California, past the cypresses...
...water fairly well. I keep it knotted around my head, and now and again dip it into the river. The water is forty-six degrees. Against the temples, it is refrigerant and relieving. This has done away with the head-aches that the sun caused in days before. The Arctic sun.--penetrating, intense--seems not so much to shine as to strike. Even the trickles of water that run down my T-shirt feel good. Meanwhile, the river--the clearest, purest water I have ever seen flowing over rocks--breaks the light into flashes and sends them upward into...
Coming into the Country is actually three lengthy bulletins about Alaska, glued together like aerial reconnaissance photographs. The first describes a canoe trip that McPhee and four companions took down an unspoiled river in the northwestern reaches of the state, well above the Arctic Circle. Second, McPhee tells of a helicopter ride with a committee looking for a site on which to build a new state capital. The last and longest section covers some wintry months spent in Eagle, a tiny settlement on the Yukon River just west of the Canadian border-"a community deeply compressed in its own isolation...
...languages) has installed three American-made log burners in his Wilton, Conn., home. With a $425 Riteway Model 37, Steven and Mary Ahlgren have used nothing but wood for the past six years to heat their five-room, multilevel house in Sanbornton, N.H. During last winter's arctic siege they cut all their own wood-four cords. Says Mary: "Our heating bill is always a week of work, whether we cut the wood or work to make the money...
...Antarctic bergs are broad, flat and better suited for towing than Arctic ones, which are mountain-shaped and irregular...