✨ Featured Offer
Brand New
$111.23
List Price: $13.95
🚚
See all 5 offers from $12.17 FREE standard delivery by: 03 Apr 2026
Overview
Turquoise water, pillowy sand, and a warm, salty breeze--today the beach is regarded as the best possible place to restore body and soul. However, this has not always been the case. In other centuries the beach was considered a remote, terrifying wasteland on the margins of civilization. In their entertaining, elegant, and illuminating account, Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker trace the four-billion-year evolution of the place where land, water, and humans meet.Embedded in the narrative are the histories of sexuality, health, fashion, sport, the rise of the great resorts--St. Tropez, Catalina, Newport, Miami Beach--and the beach tales of Columbus, D-Day troops, and castaways Cook, Melville, and Swinburne. Including a marvelous selection of images evoking the beach's hypnotic appeal--Impressionist paintings, archival photographs, advertising art, and postcards--and an Appendix of the world's most beautiful, unspoiled beaches, The Beach will fascinate any reader from Coney Island to Bora Bora.
| ISBN-13 | 9780140278026 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140278028 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.75 x 7.75 In |
| List Price | $13.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 336 pages |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Published On | 1999-06-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
Used, Good
Seller details
citywbooks
Salt Lake City, Ut, USA
Size: 5x0x7; Small Tear(s) in cover. Tape, stickers or sticker residue on cover. General wear from...
Free delivery by: 03 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Zoom Books Company
Lynden, WA, USA
Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also i...
Free delivery by: 03 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Frederick, MD, USA
Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookpla...
Free delivery by: 03 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 03 Apr 2026
✨ Brand New
Seller details
GridFreed
San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 85x12x126; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
Free delivery by: 03 Apr 2026