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Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: Hermann Weber
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: Glengariff
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: John F. Travis
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
ISBN: 9780859893923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The first comprehensive study of the emergence of Devon's seaside resorts. Relating the development of these resorts to the wider processes of social and economic change, it explains why early tourists were drawn to the remote Devon coast and shows how fishing villages were transformed into fashionable watering places. Themes covered include bathing rituals and sea-water drinking, health cures and cholera epidemics, sophisticated amusements and improving recreations, paddle-steamers and excursion trains.

Author: Herbert Junius Hardwicke
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Thomas More Madden
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Spencer Thomson
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Category : Torquay (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Thomas Linn
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Robert C. Ritchie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520395573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull’s cry and the cove’s splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide’s turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time, covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.

Author: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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