This luminous coast : walking England's eastern edge /

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Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost--not yet, perhaps, but soon--to rising tides and indust...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pretty, Jules N. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Coast changes > England > East Anglia.
Coasts > England > East Anglia.
Littoral > Modifications > Angleterre > Est-Anglie.
Littoral > Angleterre > Est-Anglie.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL > Essays & Travelogues.
Coast changes
Coasts
England > East Anglia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: a year on the coast
  • There be monsters
  • The great tide
  • Down by the sea
  • Food and fowl
  • Wild archipelago
  • Wild by industrial
  • Artery and estuary
  • Strongholds
  • Shingle shore
  • Erosion and memory
  • Barrier coast
  • Mud cliff and marsh
  • Sandhills
  • Coda.

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