The Beaches Are Moving
Download or Read eBook The Beaches Are Moving PDF written by Wallace Kaufman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Wallace Kaufman |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1984-01-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780822382942 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0822382946 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Beaches Are Moving by : Wallace Kaufman
Book excerpt: 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.
