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.

Susanna Kwan’s debut novel, “Awake in the Floating City,” envisions a near-future San Francisco where climate change has rendered the rain permanent, and flooding and erosion have driven the ...

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 ...