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Title Details
Running Time
14 Hrs. 30 Min.
Description
The beach’s turquoise surf and sugary sand now provide a favorite retreat, but this wasn’t always so. In their elegant and illuminating account, Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker chart the evolution of the seaside from a wasteland at the margins of civilization, when “exotic” meant remote and terrifying, to its present role as a staging ground for escape and recreation. As seductive as the landscape it celebrates is this full story of the seashore—its history both natural and human, its customs, spectacles, and scandals.
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