The Last Beach

by Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper

Book Overview

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores. Combining case studies and anecdotes from around the world, they argue that many of the world's developed beaches, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357984
• ISBN13: 9780822357988
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.4"