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The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline (Living with the Shore)
The Beaches Are Moving The Drowning of America's Shoreline - Living with the Shore Author:Wallace Kaufman, Orrin H. Pilkey Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dream lands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you--all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation... more » 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.« less