The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline
by Wallace Kaufman & Orrin H.. Pilkey Jr | Outdoors & Nature | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0822305747 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0822305747 Global Overview for this book
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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.
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.
"[T]he definitive work describing the dynamics of barrier islands--and the futility of trying to stabilize them."
--Richard Hart, Independent Weekly
I found this book on the discount shelves of a local used book store.
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.
"[T]he definitive work describing the dynamics of barrier islands--and the futility of trying to stabilize them."
--Richard Hart, Independent Weekly
I found this book on the discount shelves of a local used book store.
Journal Entry 2 by buttonbright at Peace Be The Journey Book Box 416 1St St., Sunset Beach, NC Charter #129236 in Sunset Beach, North Carolina USA on Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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I am buying books from the outside shelves at The Readers Corner (a Raleigh used book store) and releasing them. This is one of those books. If you like it, take it and write a journal entry at www.BookCrossing.com - its easy and anonymous. Then when you are done with it, find a nice person or place to release it. I look forward to reading your thoughts on this book and finding out where you got it from. This book is on an adventure we can share with it.
416 1st St., Sunset Beach, NC
Charter #129236. https://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/1/36/19813/887390
I am buying books from the outside shelves at The Readers Corner (a Raleigh used book store) and releasing them. This is one of those books. If you like it, take it and write a journal entry at www.BookCrossing.com - its easy and anonymous. Then when you are done with it, find a nice person or place to release it. I look forward to reading your thoughts on this book and finding out where you got it from. This book is on an adventure we can share with it.