The Beach: An Australian Passion
| Book | The Beach: An Australian Passion |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 2015 |
| Author | Robert Drewe |
| Publisher | NLA Publishing |
| Commissioning Editor | Susan Hall (2) |
| Editor | Justine Molony |
| Designed by | Elizabeth Faul |
| Image Manager | Kathryn Ross, Jemma Posch |
| Research Assistant | Gina Wyatt |
| Production Coordinator | Melissa Bush |
| Cover photo | Tim J. Keegan |
| Copyright Holder | National Library of Australia |
| Copyright Holder (Text) | Robert Drewe |
| Printed and Bound by | Imago |
| About/Subject | Australia |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Australia |
| Copyright | 2015 |
| Pages / Font | 236 pages |
| Barcode | 9 780642 278807 |
| ISBN | 978-0-642-27880-7 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 551.457 |
| Chapters | Contents
1 The real Australia
2 The best beaches in the world
3 What we do there?
4 Rotto mon amour
5 The beach in history
6 The light on the cliff
7 Mr Gocher goes surfing
8 Beach disipline
9 Between the flags
10 Stoked
11 Life in a travel book
12 The big beach questions, unsatisfactorily answered
13 The famous backdrop
14 Irene
15 'Jump out, Isaac'
16 Beach obsessives
17 The beach shack lives!
18 The bikini wars
19 The snake pit
20 A wonder of the natural world
21 A great road
22 Celebrity beach
23 Glitter city
24 A prime minister disappears
25 Nightmare beach
26 The bone
27 Treasure seekers
28 The shadow in the sea
29 Stingers
30 Fishy business
31 Jimpy and the whales
32 Profile of a beachwormer
33 Rips
34 Beauty and ghosts
35 The dark side
36 The beach as bomb site
37 The change that dare not speak its name
38 The beach of green capsicums
Acknowledgements
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1 The real Australia
2 The best beaches in the world
3 What we do there?
4 Rotto mon amour
5 The beach in history
6 The light on the cliff
7 Mr Gocher goes surfing
8 Beach disipline
9 Between the flags
10 Stoked
11 Life in a travel book
12 The big beach questions, unsatisfactorily answered
13 The famous backdrop
14 Irene
15 'Jump out, Isaac'
16 Beach obsessives
17 The beach shack lives!
18 The bikini wars
19 The snake pit
20 A wonder of the natural world
21 A great road
22 Celebrity beach
23 Glitter city
24 A prime minister disappears
25 Nightmare beach
26 The bone
27 Treasure seekers
28 The shadow in the sea
29 Stingers
30 Fishy business
31 Jimpy and the whales
32 Profile of a beachwormer
33 Rips
34 Beauty and ghosts
35 The dark side
36 The beach as bomb site
37 The change that dare not speak its name
38 The beach of green capsicums
Acknowledgements
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| Notes | Published by the National Library of Australia © National Library of Australia 2015 Text © Robert Drewe Commissioning Publisher: Susan Hall Editor: Justine Molony Designer: Elizabeth Faul Image coordinators: Kathryn Ross, Jemma Posch Research assistance: Gina Wyatt Production coordinator: Melissa Bush Printed and bound in China by Imago Cover image: Tim J. Keegan, Beach, Mist and Impending Storm 2010 |