Australian Beach Cultures

The History of Sun, Sand and Surf

Douglas Booth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7146-5167-5 (ISBN)

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Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture.

Douglas Booth

Prof.Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology)

"necessary reading...This is the book on the history of beach culture in Australia for which all of us concerned with Australian popular culture have been waiting."

The Manly Daily

"Booth has created a social history of Australia

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.9.2001
Reihe/Serie	Sport in the Global Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7146-5167-2 / 0714651672
ISBN-13	978-0-7146-5167-5 / 9780714651675
Zustand	Neuware