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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the state's beaches, which shows visitors how to decipher the mysteries of the beach and interpret clues to an ever-changing geological story. Orrin Pilkey, Tracy Monegan Rice, and William Neal explore large-scale processes, such as the composition and interaction of wind, waves, and sand, as well as smaller features, such as bubble holes, drift lines, and black sands. In addition, coastal life forms large and small--from crabs and turtles to microscopic animals--are all discussed here. The concluding chapter contemplates the future of North Carolina beaches, considering the threats to their survival and assessing strategies for conservation. This indispensable beach book offers vacationers and naturalists a single source for learning to appreciate and preserve the natural features of a genuine state treasure. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Orrin H. Pilkey | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press | | Publication Date: | March 29, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0807855103 | | Product Length: | 7.98 inches | | Product Width: | 6.22 inches | | Product Height: | 0.45 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.5 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.8 inches | | Package Width: | 5.6 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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28 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 An Ideal Beach Read Sep 12, 2004
By C. Ebeling
"ctlpareader"
This is beach geology 101 rendered in a pleasant and most fluent voice like the best of classic nature writing. The considerable information is meted out in a way that is easily absorbed. Before you reach the end, you are walking on the beach identifying runnels, plunging breakers, nail holes, swash and wrack lines and other exotica without running back to the book for help. You are no longer alarmed at black sand (it's sand of a different mineral base), you have new respect for the heaps of broken shells in your path. You understand how beaches are formed and where sand came from. You now know why a beach never looks the same from one day to the next. You can identify evidence of the mess caused by human intervention. This book will enhance your stay at the beach in ways that whiffle-light detective fiction never will.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
The Beach as a Book Aug 05, 2005
By James H. O'donnell
"Homiletics Fan"
This slim volume should be packed by any reader heading off to the
beach in North Carolina. The underlying theme is vintage Pilkey, the prophetic gadfly of beach development. He and his co-authors want us to understand that we are loving the beaches to death, like children who capture wild things. Beaches are dynamic, explains Pilkey, and all our efforts to stabiize them in some permanent state for our perpetual enjoyment are ultimately doomed. Thanks to the clear diagrams and excellent pictures, beach walkers and vicarious lovers of golden sands will better understand how this fragile system works. We need to read what Pilkey says, even if we don't want him to be right.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Interesting Jan 19, 2011
By tarheel fan
Interesting. A bit scholarly, but we can all learn something. One of my renters absconded with this book from my beach house, so I guess he liked it, too!
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Decent, but not great. Jun 28, 2009
By Gesualdo
While the book explained a variety of topics relating to NC beaches, I found the writing to be of a rather poor quality. Perhaps this was a result of having three authors involved. Despite this, I did find the answers to several beach related questions and I appreciate the authors' efforts.
I was also somewhat worried that a person who has not yet been to a NC beach may have read this book and assumed that our beaches are all disgustingly overbuilt, polluted, and unnatural. Perhaps I'm just lucky in having only visited the more pristine parts of our more pristine beaches, but a lot of the environmental "sky-is-falling" sections seemed exaggerated. I appreciate the authors' obvious desire to protect this important ecosystem for future generations, but I'm not convinced that scaring people away is the way to do that.
4 of 30 found the following review helpful:
A bit of propaganda Jul 19, 2005
By J. McGowan
The author has included information on the topics shown in the title which were interesting and informative however, it is clear that the author is anti-development at the beach and this message comes though time and time again. With this much propaganda against building on the coastline I think the book should have been free.
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