title: How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach: A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast (Southern Gateways Guides)
author: Tonya Clayton
description: Tonya Clayton loves her subject and respects her readers. Her prose is clear, sinuous and delightful. Her transformation of scientific information into an accessible guide for the beach-loving non-specialist is a total success. . . .It's a book all Gulf Coast residents and visitors should have handy in order to fully savor and revere the unique joys at the water's edge.--<i>Florida Weekly</i><br><br><br /><br />With a conversational style and more than a hundred illustrations <i>How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast</i> makes coastal science accessible.--<i>Coastal Care</i><br><br><br /><br />With an easy style and more than a hundred illustrations, <i>How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach</i> invites vacationers and residents alike to see and enjoy [Florida's] beaches in a new way.--<i>Harbor Happenings</i><br><br><br /><br />A delight to read.--<i>The Understory</i><br><br><br /><br />Clayton loves her subject and respects her readers. Her prose is clear, sinuous and delightful. Her transformation of scientific information into an accessible guide for the beachloving non-specialist is a total success.--<i>Florida Weekly</i><br><br>
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