If you need to mug up on wave action, tsunamis and weathering before your
next trip to the beach try Changing Coastlines, by Judith Peeters, which manages
to combine enough facts to satisfy Dickens’s Mr Gradgrind with lavish photos to
keep the less studious equally content. Published by New Holland, £12.99,
ISBN 1853686921.
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