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Summer: A User's Guide
Summer: A User’s GuideBy Suzanne Brown
Softcover, 224 pages ($19.95)
What do you want to do this summer? Whatever it is, this handy-dandy owner’s manual has probably got it covered. Step-by-step instructions on some 125 different, diverse warm-weather activities—including building sand castles, paddling canoes, kite flying, grilling the perfect hamburger, cranking homemade ice cream and catching fireflies—will make you an instant expert at some of the season’s simple, sublimely splendid pleasures.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
first appeared: 7/5/2007
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