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Silver Donald Cameron is a prolific and acclaimed Canadian journalist, author, playwright and university teacher whose writing focuses on social justice, nature and the environment. His 15 books of non-fiction deal with everything from history and politics to education and community development. An avid sailor, Cameron has written several books about ships and the sea. Two of his books, The Education of Everett Richardson (1977) and The Living Beach (1998) are included in Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books.
It touches down on various troubled beaches worldwide. Along the way we get some great yarns and a fund of facts to turn over in our minds like polished stones. We're taken on a brisk tour of beach flora and fauna, and diverti 1/2ed with bits of beach miscellanea such as sand castles, Spanish horses, and shell-collectors. We learn about 100-foot waves and 400-foot tsunamis, gain a new beach vocabulary: pocket, baymouth, barachois and tombolos. We meet a cast of beach scientists, like the poetry-quoting Willard Bascom and the combative Orrin Pilkey. -- Quill & Quire -It touches down on various troubled beaches worldwide. Along the way we get some great yarns and a fund of facts to turn over in our minds like polished stones. We're taken on a brisk tour of beach flora and fauna, and diverti1/2ed with bits of beach miscellanea such as sand castles, Spanish horses, and shell-collectors. We learn about 100-foot waves and 400-foot tsunamis, gain a new beach vocabulary: pocket, baymouth, barachois and tombolos. We meet a cast of beach scientists, like the poetry-quoting Willard Bascom and the combative Orrin Pilkey.- --Quill & Quire It touches down on various troubled beaches worldwide. Along the way we get some great yarns and a fund of facts to turn over in our minds like polished stones. We're taken on a brisk tour of beach flora and fauna, and diverti1/2ed with bits of beach miscellanea such as sand castles, Spanish horses, and shell-collectors. We learn about 100-foot waves and 400-foot tsunamis, gain a new beach vocabulary: pocket, baymouth, barachois and tombolos. We meet a cast of beach scientists, like the poetry-quoting Willard Bascom and the combative Orrin Pilkey. --Quill & Quire
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