America's Best Beaches

by Stephen P. Leatherman

Book Overview

"Evidence that beautiful beaches still abound along America's coastlines. . . . The book is filled with great photos that just might make you start planning your next excursion to the shore."--... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096634510X
• ISBN13: 9780966345100
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Beach Book overlooks Great Lakes beaches!

I am an expert on the Great Lakes, and was senior staff for 6 years for Great Lakes United, an international coalition that protects the Great Lakes. I think Dr. Leatherman's book is excellent except one great omission. HE TOTALLY LEAVES OUT THE GREAT LAKES! For those who dont live near them, yes, they have great beaches. The Great Lakes have 3800 miles of shoreline, longer than the entire U.S. Atlantic shoreline. 8-mile long Presque Isle Beach in Pennsylvania is used by millions of people a year. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, near Chicago, is nationally famous. Nottasawaga Beach in Ontario, Toronto's prime summer vacation district, is the longest freshwater beach in the world! NY, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ontario and Minnesota all have long, clean sandy beaches. And they have something ocean beaches DONT have: they are on freshwater (not salty). The Great Lakes are called the Sweetwater Seas, and they are the largest collection of lakes in the world (and contain 25% of the world's freshwater). If Mr. Leatherman wants to be fair and complete, he will expand his book to include Great Lakes beaches in the future edition.