Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction (also from Cornell), The Earth Only Endures, Agri-Culture, and Regenerating Agriculture.

This Luminous Coast is part travel guide, part memoir, part meditation, part elegy. Although it is occasioned by a sense of urgency, it never preaches; nor does the author claim any privileged knowledge, despite the wealth of information that he discreetly imparts. It doesn't demand our response, or even insist that we follow up the author's findings. However, if we let it do its work, we will be subtly changed.(Times Higher Education Supplement) Illustrated with the author's own photographs, This Luminous Coast is an elegiac meditation on a constantly changing landscape.(Financial Times)

• Preface: A Year on the Coast1. There Be Monsters2. The Great Tide3. Down by the Sea4. Food & Fowl5. Wild Archipelago6. Wild by Industrial7. Artery &Estuary8. Strongholds9. Shingle Shore10. Erosion & Memory11. Barrier Coast12. Mud Cliff & Marsh13. SandhillsCodaNotesBibliography

Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction (also from Cornell), The Earth Only Endures, Agri-Culture, and Regenerating Agriculture.

This Luminous Coast is part travel guide, part memoir, part meditation, part elegy. Although it is occasioned by a sense of urgency, it never preaches; nor does the author claim any privileged knowledge, despite the wealth of information that he discreetly imparts. It doesn't demand our response, or even insist that we follow up the author's findings. However, if we let it do its work, we will be subtly changed.(Times Higher Education Supplement) Illustrated with the author's own photographs, This Luminous Coast is an elegiac meditation on a constantly changing landscape.(Financial Times)

• Preface: A Year on the Coast1. There Be Monsters2. The Great Tide3. Down by the Sea4. Food & Fowl5. Wild Archipelago6. Wild by Industrial7. Artery &Estuary8. Strongholds9. Shingle Shore10. Erosion & Memory11. Barrier Coast12. Mud Cliff & Marsh13. SandhillsCodaNotesBibliography

Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction (also from Cornell), The Earth Only Endures, Agri-Culture, and Regenerating Agriculture.

This Luminous Coast is part travel guide, part memoir, part meditation, part elegy. Although it is occasioned by a sense of urgency, it never preaches; nor does the author claim any privileged knowledge, despite the wealth of information that he discreetly imparts. It doesn't demand our response, or even insist that we follow up the author's findings. However, if we let it do its work, we will be subtly changed.(Times Higher Education Supplement) Illustrated with the author's own photographs, This Luminous Coast is an elegiac meditation on a constantly changing landscape.(Financial Times)

• Preface: A Year on the Coast1. There Be Monsters2. The Great Tide3. Down by the Sea4. Food & Fowl5. Wild Archipelago6. Wild by Industrial7. Artery &Estuary8. Strongholds9. Shingle Shore10. Erosion & Memory11. Barrier Coast12. Mud Cliff & Marsh13. SandhillsCodaNotesBibliography