RT Journal A1 McAdams JA T1 DEsert island reading JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 1969 FD June 2 VO 208 IS 9 SP 1703 OP 1703 DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160090063021 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160090063021 AB To the Editor:—  This year's book number is, as usual, great, but I disagree with Richard Armour's choice of books (208:139, 1969) If I were to be marooned on a desert island and could have only one book, I would choose neither the King James version of the Bible nor Richard Armour's suggested New English Dictionary, but rather Rowen's Practical Art of Shipbuilding.