 | A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands From the North Carolina Outer Banks to New York's Fire Island, from Iceland to the Netherlands, and Colombia to Vietnam, barrier islands protect much of the world's coastlines from the ravages of the sea. A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands is one part stunning coffee table book, and one part state-of-the-art popular science, and it will take readers on a long-distance journey from pole to pole and hemisphere to hemisphere that is altogether original. Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology and director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Duke University. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Francis Shepard Award for Excellence in Marine Geology, and the author or editor of many books, including The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline , Living by the Rules of the Sea , and The Corps and the Shore. Mary Edna Fraser is a renowned artist specializing in the production of large-scale batiks, many based on aerial photographs. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Duke University Museum of Art, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences. |
