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The Great Beach Paperback - 1980 - 2nd Edition

by John Hay; David Grose (Illustrator)

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Cape Cod's vast outer coast, named The Great Beach by Henry David Thoreau, is little changed since the Pilgrim's first landfall almost 350 years ago. Today a plane can skim its fifty miles in a matter of seconds, and in the summer bathing areas are so crowded with cars and people they take on a continental flavor. But the long, desolate, windswept stretches can still be found, and the National Park Service has been taking steps to preserve the original character of the beach and its rolling dunes back from the water, designating it a National Seashore.

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Cape Cod's vast outer coast is little changed since the Pilgrims' first landfall almost 350 years ago. Today a plane can skim its fifty miles in a matter of seconds, and in the summer bathing areas are so crowded with cars and people they take on a continental flavor. In these unforgettable pages a noted naturalist and author brings to life a breathtakingly vivid world of sand, wildlife, sun, shipwrecks, and sea.

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  • Title The Great Beach
  • Author John Hay; David Grose (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 156
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 1980-06-01
  • ISBN 9780393009835 / 0393009831
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.17 x 5.08 x 0.48 in (20.75 x 12.90 x 1.22 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
  • Category Travel - United States
  • Library of Congress subjects Natural history - Massachusetts - Cape Cod, Cape Cod (Mass.) - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.449
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