描述

Shallow-Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the richness of?our vernacular language and a lament on its passing — and with it, the passing of the words we need to understand the shallow-water regions, which, once the primary landscape of America, now face extinction, both physical and linguistic.

Beautifully written, Shallow-Water Dictionary is a thought-provoking and valuable addition to our knowlege of our changing landscape. Stilgoe’s definitions are lyric explanations — literary, etymological, historical, vernacular — of more than 25 words and terms whose original meanings have been eroded by time.