A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring ... best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir’s floating picnics. A young Parisian, bored with ...

Their efforts are published in a new book, "On The River: A History of the Ozarks Float Trip," published as part of the Ozarks Studies Institute Book Series. The book is available for purchase on ...

Yet the only movement is the inexorable forward creep of time, of age, of water ... “Awake in the Floating City” is troubled by some of the same problems that plague many books about fictional ...

VENICE OBSERVED (199 pp.)—Mary Mc-Carthy—Reynal ($15). More than a century has passed since Byron swam from the Lido to Venice and through the Grand Canal (four miles), and nearly two since ...

More: Murky water, colorful graffiti and a ... are what set the book a part from others about the history of float trips, Copeland added. "I think us, being able to bring our own personal ...