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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last resort
    sub title: a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach
  name:
    name part: Stodola, Sarah
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture, strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints and the inevitable overdevelopment and decline that comes with a soaring demand for popular shorelines. The Last Resort weaves Stodola's firsthand travel notes with her exacting journalism in an enthralling report on the past, present and future of coastal travel. She takes us from Monte Carlo, where the pursuit of pleasure first became part of the beach resort experience, to a village in Fiji that was changed irrevocably by the opening of a single resort, from the overdevelopment that stripped Acapulco of its reputation for exclusivity to Miami Beach, where extreme measures are underway to prevent the barrier island from vanishing into the ocean. In the twenty-first century, beach travel has become central to our globalized world-its culture, economy and interconnectedness. But with sea levels likely to rise at least 1.5 to 3 feet by the end of this century, beaches will become increasingly difficult to preserve, and many will disappear altogether. What will our last resort be when water begins to fill the lobbies?
  table of contents: I'm never coming home : Thailand and England -- Where all passions combine : Monte Carlo, the Jersey Shore, and Cap d'Antibes -- Among the very tall : Waikiki -- Into far-flung places : Fiji -- New frontiers, precarious business : Nicaragua and Senegal -- Paradise lost (to overdevelopment) : Tulum, Ibiza, and CancuÌ?n -- A global juggernaut : Vietnam and Portugal -- The long haul to the high end : Sumba (Indonesia) -- Beyond the sea : Barbados and St. Kitts -- A tale of two islands : Bali and Nias (Indonesia) -- Ghosts in the machine : Baiae, Rockaway, and Acapulco -- Up to here : Miami Beach -- Interlude : return to Railay -- A better way : Tioman Island (Malaysia) -- Sands of time : the future of the beach resort.
  note: Sarah Stodola.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stodola, Sarah
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    topic: Beaches
    topic: Recreational use
  subject:
    topic: Seaside resorts
  subject:
    topic: Outdoor recreation
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Outdoor recreation
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Outdoor recreation
    topic: Environmental aspects
  classification: GV191.6 .S84 2022
  classification: 796.5/3
  identifier: 9780062951625
  identifier: 0062951629
  identifier: 9780062951670
  identifier: 006295167X
  identifier: 9780062951632
  identifier: 2022020632
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220604
    record change date: 20220822135405.1
    record identifier: in00004591659