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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385143648
• ISBN13: 9780385143646
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.

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