Books: Floating Picnic. 3 minute read. TIME. July 7, ... British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5).

The six-chapter book also touches on the evolution of floating, which really began as a fishing sport, to what is considered, by many, as a more leisure summer activity today. About 50-60 photos ...

Float fishing in the Ozarks became a commercial activity when the railroads brought wealthy sportsmen. A new book shares the history of float trips.

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 ...