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Jamin Wells

Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach

Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2020
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Drawing on a broad range of archival material, Jamin Wells examines how shipwrecks laid the groundwork for the beach tourism industry that would transform the American beach from coastal frontier to oceanfront playspace, spur substantial investment, reshape ideas about the coast, and turn the beach into a touchstone of the American experience.

Weight: 426g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781469660905

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