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Author Drewe, Robert, 1943- author

Title The beach : an Australian passion / Robert Drewe
Published Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, [2015]
Canberra, ACT : NLA Publishing, [2015]
©2015

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Description iii, 236 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), 1 colour map ; 29 cm
regular print
Contents 1. The real Australia -- 2. The best beaches in the world -- 3. What do 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 discipline -- 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 the 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
Summary From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture, in this new National Library of Australia publication, combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his stories - a favourite boat, a capsicum-strewn beach, a summer holiday and an unwelcome great white. Drewe looks at the sunny, salty sexiness of the beach that first enticed the crusading Mr William Gocher into the ocean at Manly in 1903, defying authorities in his neck-to-knee bathing costume. We've come a long way from sunbathing in stockings and pantaloons to the unabashed display of sun-kissed bodies of all shapes and sizes at any beach in the country today. But the beach also has a dark side as a place of tragedy, violence and danger, a place where sharks attack prone surfers and prime ministers disappear. In The Beach, Drewe turns his attention to the favourite coastal theme, but in a new way: a mix of history, reminiscence and lyrical description, complemented by photographs from the National Library of Australia's collection
Analysis Australian
Notes National Library's N copy signed by the author. ANL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 227)
Audience Adult
Subject Dampier, William, 1652-1715.
Vincent, Henry, 1813-1878.
SUBJECT FastBack collection
Subject Bathing customs -- Australia -- History.
Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Rottnest Island (W.A.)
Beaches -- Recreational use -- Australia.
Beaches -- Recreational use -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Beaches -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Beaches -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Beaches -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Anecdotes.
Author National Library of Australia, issuing body
LC no. 2015462651
ISBN 9780642278807 :