| The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline Contributor(s): Kaufman, Wallace (Author), Pilkey, Orrin H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822305747 ISBN-13: 9780822305743 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1984 Annotation: Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you--all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Real Estate - General - Nature - Science |
| Dewey: 333.917 |
| LCCN: 83001761 |
| Lexile Measure: 1290 |
| Series: Living with the Shore |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.43" W x 8.11" (1.02 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you--all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely. |