Between Land Sea by Christopher Pastore
Between Land Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England, by Christopher Pastore, graduate, the MFA in Creative Writing program; faculty, Creative Writing at The New School.
Harvard University Press, 2014.
Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay’s ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.