Swimming to the top of the tide : finding life where land and water meet
"The Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampshire. Patricia Hanlon and her husband, Robert, built their home and raised their children alongside it. But it is not until the children are grown and they begin to swim the tidal estuary daily that she becomes fully alert to all its elements--animal, botanical, and mineral--and its life cycles. Immersing herself, she experiences,...