Beaches - Hardcover

Bosker, G

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811826503 ISBN 13: 9780811826501

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2001

Synopsis

The authors of The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth, the best-selling history of everyone's favorite place, are back with a breathtaking visual companion. From moody, craggy coastlines to serene swathes of turquoise water and white sand, Beaches is an astounding photographic survey of the ineffable allure of paradise on earth. This spectacular collection of images from renowned photographers, including Richard Misrach, Joel Meyerowitz, and Art Wolfe, stirs the spirit, capturing the mutable beauty of sand, sea, and sky. Throughout, concise and poetic pieces of historic and scientific lore unveil little-known facts and curiosities. With an astonishing range of vision, Beaches evokes the idiosyncratic beauty of the world's most stunning coastlines.

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Review:

Sand is a substance that is beautiful, mysterious, and infinitely variable, the result of process that go back into the shadowy beginnings of life. Rachel Carson

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0811826503
• ISBN 13: 9780811826501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132