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The Great Beach
Contributor(s): Hay, John (Author), Grose, David (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0393009831     ISBN-13: 9780393009835
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $18.00  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 1980
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Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
Dewey: 917.449
LCCN: 00000000
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.08" W x 8.17" L (0.42 lbs) 156 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - New England
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Hay, John: - John Hay (1915-2011) was the author of The Run, The Undiscovered Country, The Immortal Wilderness, and other books on nature.
 
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