The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline
(Part of the Living with the Shore Series)
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822305747
ISBN13:9780822305743
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"
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A Classic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Pilkey argues that barrier islands move, whether we like it or not, and that attempts to stabilize them nearly always make things worse. A wonderful read, especially for your next beach vacation. Pilkey is regarded as something close to the devil incarnate by coastal developers and their allies
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