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| Review: A Decade of Beach Walks
by Jennifer Barnes Moffett
This delightful book is filled with seaside discoveries and nature-inspired epiphanies from over ten years of daily jaunts along the shorelines of the Mississippi Coast. Thatcher compiled the observations collected from his column titled "Scenes from the Beach" in Biloxi's Sun Herald newspaper. His thoughts roam through each season, and he never misses a scurrying sand crab or fluttering butterfly without taking a closer look. Thatcher often quotes literary giants like Homer, Wordsworth, and Keats, while pondering the beauty of our local coastline and its overall place in history.
"Nature has a way of renewing and restoring things. The beach today, the one in 1699, and even shores like this one on the day of creation--all bear a similarity, I think. It is the same sun and moon, the same sea," he writes.
This book is best savored just as it was written--in little bits and pieces every day.
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