The beach
the history of paradise on earth
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Author
Contributions
- Bosker, Gideon. - Contributor
Publication
1998 - Viking, New York, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
77,500 words, Guess
Page Count
310 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL467311M
- ISBN-100670880957
- OCLC Control Number39230615
- OCLC Control Numberbeachhistoryofpa00lenc
- Library of Congress Control Number98188534
and 2 more
- LibraryThing177305
- Goodreads1508043
Classifications
- DDC394/.3
- LCCGB454.B3 L46 1998
Description
In their 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. Embedded in the story are the histories of sexuality, health, fashion, and sport, as well as accounts of the development of beach architecture (and beachwear, naturally) and the rise of the great resorts, whose very names - Brighton, St. Tropez, Newport, Miami Beach - are synonymous with pleasure. The beach is also where Columbus, Cook, and Bougainville first set eyes on the "other," where the D-Day troops invaded France, and where the first postwar atomic bomb was exploded. Discover how the beach has become the symbolic place where each wave of inhabitants can make real its own idea of paradise.
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