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Blue-green surf, pillowy white fine sand, and a warm salty breeze--when it involves rebuilding body and heart, no place on the globe can compete with the beach. Nature's strongest antidepressant, the seashore is today--but wasn't always--everyone's favorite holiday place. With an interesting historical accounts as its narrative construction, this elegantly designed volume charts the development of the seaside from a wasteland at the margins of civilization--remote, terror packed, and exotic--to its present role as the central staging ground for diversions of most sorts: get away, re-creation, and congregation. A marvelous selection of images evokes the beach's hypnotic appeal--everything from impressionist paintings and attractive lithographs to archival photographs and quirky advertising art--as the written text explores the histories of sexuality, fashion, and sport; the climb of great resorts from Coney Island to Cap d'Antibes; and the development of leisure itself. Also included is an appendix of the world's most beautiful, luxurious, and unspoiled beaches. The Beach will be a pleasure to any reader who wants to relax on the fine sand with a great--and fascinating--book.
