The great beach (Registro nro. 116620)
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| control field | 75895 |
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| control field | UtSlPG |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260610134745.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 63018198 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F001 |
| -- | QH |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hay, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1915-2011 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The great beach |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-04-17 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The Great Beach" by John Hay is a nature-focused nonfiction book written in the mid-20th century. The work is a contemplative and richly descriptive account that explores the landscapes, ecology, history, and changing human relationship with Cape Cod’s Outer Beach. Hay draws on a blend of personal experience, natural observation, and historical reflection to evoke both the enduring wildness and the evolving presence of people along these shifting sands. The likely topic of the book is the intricate and awe-inspiring interaction between nature and humanity on the Cape, emphasizing transformation, impermanence, and the urgent need for respect and stewardship of wild places. The opening of "The Great Beach" sets the tone by recounting the arrival of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod and contrasting the harsh, wild coastline of the early 17th century with the modern, crowded, and “tamed” landscape of Hay’s own time. Hay introduces the Outer Beach as both an ancient, ever-changing natural feature and a symbol of broader American attitudes toward wilderness and land use. Through vivid anecdotes—including his own solitary, physically demanding hike along the beach and observations of its birds, animals, dunes, and tides—he immerses the reader in the constant processes of change: erosion, renewal, habitation, and abandonment. Interwoven with personal narrative, Hay introduces themes of environmental responsibility, the marvel and mystery of marine and dune ecosystems, and the tension between nature’s cycles and human development, preparing the reader for a deep exploration of the Cape as both a specific locality and a microcosm of larger environmental concerns. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Grose, David, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1922-2016 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75895">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75895</a> |
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