Fish-Shape Paumanok: Nature and Man on Long Island, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 58

by Robert Cushman Murphy

Book Overview

The bittersweet message of this volume is at once Robert Cushman Murphy's celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that inspired him; a chronicle of man's destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways. Although it weaves history and natural history into a time-sequenced story, this is not just a book about the past. Its broad scope still provides a Rosetta Stone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871690586
• ISBN13: 9780871690586
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 67 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"