J. A. Steers

The Sea Coast (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Sea Coast shows in a persuasive and compelling way the origin and evolution of cliffs, estuaries, sea marshes, sand dunes and the communities of plants and animals that they support.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007406227
• Artikelnr.: 37979953

Autorenporträt

(1899-1987). Geomorphologist, Cambridge geographer, graduate and later Fellow of St Catherine's College. Professor of Geography at Cambridge 1949-66 and the authority on the moulding of coastlines. Member of expeditions to coral reefs Australia 1928, 1936 and Caribbean 1939; concerned above all with surveys of British coast from a classic study of Scolt Head Island (1934) to the standard work The Coastline of England and Wales (1946). Much involved with coastal protection and a keen exponent of coastline preservation on Nature Conservancy, National Parks Commission and National Trust's Enterprise Neptune. CBE 1973.