The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline

by Wallace Kaufman

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...

• 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"

Customer Reviews

A Classic

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