A book I look forward to reading

I have referred several times in the past to Orrin H. Pilkey, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geologyat Duke University. Now, together with colleagues from the US and Northern Ireland, he has published what promises to be an informative, entertaining, and provocative read - The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline.

I haven’t, of course, got my hands on a copy yet, but a review in the New York Times simply confirms that anything by Pilkey is required reading. The review is titled"Shorelines, Sandy or Otherwise, That May Not Last." The conclusion echoes the issuethat I posted on a couple of months ago:

But, the authors conclude, unless society chooses beaches over buildings the result will be a world in which parks like the National Seashores retain natural beaches, but beach resorts elsewhere are “heavily walled and beachless.” Rising seas will make sand-pumping operations “untenable,” they predict, and tourists will amuse themselves by “promenading on top of a seawall” — already the principal activity in too many coastal resorts.
If they are right, by then the beaches this book describes will be a nostalgic memory.

The book is published by the University of California Press, to whom I will ever be grateful for publishing mine, and the New York Times review is by Cornelia Dean, whose own book, “Against the Tide: the Battle for America’s Beaches,” also falls into the required reading category. SIGNATURE

Originally published at: https://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/2011/08/a-book-i-look-forward-to-reading.html