Description

Hutchinson [Published date: 1967]. Hard cover, 159 pp. First Edition. Good in acceptable dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with gold illustration of wharf and blue lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 2" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From front jacket flap] Every year millions head for the coast, some to lie on mudflats peering down binoculars, others to 'whoop it up' in a holiday camp. Between these extremes are the rest of us to whom the coast makes its special appeal. No country is more varied than Britain and nowhere is this variety more evident than along the coast. England and Wales possess some of the finest coastline in the world and what do we do to it? We swarm on it in summer; we dump litter on its beaches; we empty sewage into the sea all round it; we cover it with bungalows and caravans; armies play war games on the best parts of it; we abuse it so much that a national appeal has to be launched in a desperate attempt to save it - and we subscribe generously to protect it. It is one of the greatest national assets - and paradoxes. This book analyses the essence of its attractions from popcorn to pebbles, from deserted bays to Blackpool. It also exposes some of the crime perpetrated against it and suggests what might be done to make better use of it. Kenneth Lindley, whose illustrations are a particular attraction, is Principal of Wakefield College of Art and is the author and illustrator of Graves and Epitaphs.