The Beaches Are Moving : The Drowning of America's Shoreline
Pilkey, Orrin H., Kaufman, Wallace
ISBN 10: 0822305747 ISBN 13: 9780822305743
Published by Duke University Press, 1984
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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.
From the Back Cover: 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.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Beaches Are Moving : The Drowning of ...
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Juliana Naumoff
Condition: Very Good
Edition: Reprint.