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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ethan Carr , Ethan CarrPublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Weight: 1.455kg ISBN: 9780820355580ISBN 10: 0820355585 Publication Date: 30 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsEthan Carr's The Greatest Beach is a fascinating layered history of the cultural landscape. The book provides a detailed examination, expertly researched, of the planning and design of a national park that needed to balance strongly competing interests, hopes and fears in a long-inhabited and storied place. . . . The Greatest Beach is an important and poignant reminder for our troubled times and how America's past genius for compromise can create ground-shifting and Earth-saving federal legislation.--Julia Blakely Smithsonian Magazine The Greatest Beach is a superb account of the creation of Cape Cod National Seashore and makes a valuable contribution to the history of national parks.--Rolf Diamant former superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site The Greatest Beach is a superb account of the creation of Cape Cod National Seashore and makes a valuable contribution to the history of national parks.--Rolf Diamant, former superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Author InformationETHAN CARR, FASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and an international authority on America's public landscapes. He is the author of Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma. He is also the editor of Public Nature: Scenery, History, and Park Design and of volume 8 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, and LALH series editor of Designing the American Park. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |