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Old 02-18-2004, 06:39 PM   #3
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Ok, a few of my favorites...

Tao of Pooh
Te of Piglet
by Ben Hoff, great easy intro to eastern philosophy

Fishing related;
Cod
Striper Surf
Striper Moon (not a sissy sticker, but a good read)

Classics;
Sea Wolfe, Jack London
20,000 Leagues, Verne
Moby #^&#^&#^&#^&, Melville
Old Man and the Sea Ernest
Island in the stream Hemingway

Sciency Stuff....
General Coastal Interest;
Against the Tide; Corniela Dean
(there is another book called Against the tide that was about comm. fishing and was pretty good)

Block Island Geology
(A must read for ANYONE who fishes out there... I know where to find copies, so let me know if interested)

Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket; The Geologic Story; Bob Odale



A bunch of sciency text book/references;
Waves and Beaches, Willard Bascom; a classic
Beach Processs; Paul Komar
The next fifty years; ?
Skeptical Environmentalist; Lomborg; a different look at sea level rise and climate change; a good counterpart to the IPCC report
The Beaches are Moving; Pilkey

Bryan

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