How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach: A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast

Author:   Tonya Clayton
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780807872185


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   30 April 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Tonya Clayton
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.356kg
ISBN:  

9780807872185


ISBN 10:   0807872180
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   30 April 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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An excellent guide to Florida's Gulf Coast environment. As well as being a primer on coastal processes, the book conveys some important environmental messages. It will not only fill a niche in beach-goers' reading, but will also spark a greater sense of concern about the future of these beaches. --William J. Neal, Grand Valley State University<br>


Clayton loves her subject and respects her readers. Her prose is clear, sinuous and delightful. Her transformation of scientific information into an accessible guide for the beachloving non-specialist is a total success. <br>- Florida Weekly


A delight to read.-- The Understory


With an easy style and more than a hundred illustrations, How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach invites vacationers and residents alike to see and enjoy [Florida's] beaches in a new way.--Harbor Happenings With a conversational style and more than a hundred illustrations How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast makes coastal science accessible.--Coastal Care Tonya Clayton loves her subject and respects her readers. Her prose is clear, sinuous and delightful. Her transformation of scientific information into an accessible guide for the beach-loving non-specialist is a total success. . . .It's a book all Gulf Coast residents and visitors should have handy in order to fully savor and revere the unique joys at the water's edge.--Florida Weekly Clayton loves her subject and respects her readers. Her prose is clear, sinuous and delightful. Her transformation of scientific information into an accessible guide for the beachloving non-specialist is a total success.--Florida Weekly A delight to read.--The Understory


Clayton loves her subject and respects her readers. Her prose is clear, sinuous and delightful. Her transformation of scientific information into an accessible guide for the beachloving non-specialist is a total success.--Florida Weekly


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Tonya Clayton is a freelance science writer and editor.

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