A Place on Water: Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0884482626
- ISBN-13
- 9780884482628
- Category
- Natural history
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Tilbury House Pub
- Authors
- Bill Roorbach, Robert Kimber, Welsey McNair
Description
In a trio of wonderful, long essays, a nature writer, a poet, and an essayist/novelist let us sit in on their friendship and what draws them, inexorably, to the same small pond in Maine. A joyful, unforgettable book.
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