Margins : A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound

By Mary Parker Buckles

Book Overview

Twenty-four million people live within one hundred miles of Long Island Sound, the 110-mile-long body of water that separates Long Island from Connecticut and New York's mainland. Yet the land, sky,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865475326
• ISBN13: 9780865475328
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: North Point Pr
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the few lovely books about the Sound

Mary Buckles develops a great relationship with life on the Sound and shares it so gracefully with the reader. There are so few books available about the Sound, and hers is one of the best.

What a terrifc book!

I met Mary Parker Buckles 20 years ago and immediately fell for her. Articulate, witty and graced with the style of a native Southerner, she enthralled me. After reading her book on Long Island Sound, I just fell for her again. It's an articulate, witty and graceful look at all that grows along and in the sound.

Wonder and Magic at the Margins

This is a beautiful and enchanting book. Mary Parker Buckles initiates the reader into the teeming vitality, ceaseless creativity, and mesmerizing wonder that is Long Island Sound. The familiar, but oh so strange world of owls and ospreys, barnacles and crabs, bivalves and boats, are engagingly explored by Mary -- a true natural scientist, but with a poet's eye. I cannot recommend this book enough. It is superbly well written, and in her elegant, imaginative, playful, even rapturous style Mary helps the reader to discover the magic that lies hidden in plain sight throughout this natural habitat. Mary seems to pour her soul into the Sound, and what emerges is a lyrical voice that speaks of wonders too fair for words.