Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas - 9781561644902

The mystery and life signs of these beaches are covered within this comprehensive guide to beach processes, plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects. The book presents items in a neatly organized format, describes distributions with individual maps, and captures the beauty of beaches with well over a thousand color photos.

This book is a guide to the natural history of Georgia and Carolina beaches. It heralds the living things and metaphorical life near, on, and within the sandy margins of these Southeastern states.

Beginning with the premise that beaches are themselves alive, the book outlines how this is so. Over 850 items are described with images and maps organized into Beach Features, Beach Animals, Beach Plants, Beach Minerals, and Hand of Man.

In addition to satisfying a beachcomber's curiosity, the book highlights the wonder and mystery between dune and sea. Each part of a living beach is shown to have its own unique intrigue, with featured diversity that includes wrack lines, runnels, ripples, sea foam, hurricanes, jellies, blue buttons, hundreds of seashells, beach-hoppers, ghost crabs, tiger beetles, heart urchins, sea pork, surf fishes, sea turtles, dozens of shore birds, bands of horses, tracks in the sand, whales, beach flowers, dune plants, seabeans, driftwood, tiny gemstones, shelly rocks, fossils, beach shrines, seaglass, Spanish treasure, sea heroes, fishing curiosities, drift trash, beach threats, conservation, and quests.

Whether common or rare, powerful or delicate, beautiful or odd, each part of a living beach has a story to tell.