By Cornelia Dean
Americans like to colonize their shorelines. but if storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront building normally takes priority over coastal environmental concerns―we rescue the constructions, no longer the seashores. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this trend is resulting in the fast destruction of our coast. yet her eloquent account additionally deals sound recommendation for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain.
The tale starts with the story of the devastating storm that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900―the deadliest common catastrophe in American heritage, which killed a few six thousand humans. erroneous citizens developed a wall to avoid one other tragedy, however the barrier ruined the seashore and finally destroyed the town's booming hotel company.
From harrowing money owed of traditional mess ups to lucid ecological reasons of typical coastal techniques, from experiences of human interference and building at the shore to clear-eyed elucidation of public coverage and conservation pursuits, this e-book illustrates in wealthy aspect the conflicting pursuits, temporary responses, and long-range imperatives which were the hallmarks of America's love affair along with her coast.
Intriguing observations approximately America's seashores, earlier and current, comprise discussions of storm Andrew's attack at the Gulf Coast, the 1962 northeaster that ravaged a thousand miles of the Atlantic shore, the beleaguered shores of latest Jersey and North Carolina's swiftly vanishing Outer Banks, and the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean offers dozens of examples of human makes an attempt to tame the ocean―as good as a wealth of lucid descriptions of the ocean's counterattack. Readers will savour Against the Tide's painless direction in coastal methods and new viewpoint at the beach.
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