Beside the Seaside: A celebration of the beach - Hardcover

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Ruth Petrie is a freelance editor. She selected articles for Cuttings: A Year in the Garden with Christopher Lloyd (2007), The Guardian Book of the Countryside (2008) and Notes from the Garden (2009).

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Those people who cut the crust off their bread are missing out on the best bit - the goodness. It's the same with Britain: the best bits are round the edges.

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Who doesn't love to be beside the seaside? Building sandcastles, exploring rockpools, strolling along windswept beaches, skimming stones across the waves - we Brits are never happier than when we're enjoying everything our coast has to offer.

This enticing anthology brings together over a hundred years' worth of jottings and thoughs on every aspect of the British seaside, from a Victorian reporter bewailing the 'indiscriminate bathing' at Blackpool to descriptions of the astonishing selection of animals, birds and plants to be found along the seafront. Not to mention observations on donkey rides, beach huts, ice creams and Brighton rock.

But the collection also goes beyond the traditional British seaside holiday to explore our coastal heritage. Fossils along the Dinosaur coast, for example, Grace Darling's lighthouse, Martello towers built to defend the Empire - wherever you turn the eviddence of our past is there to see.

Beside the Seaside is the perfect holiday companion for anyone who loves the smell of a sea breeze and the feeling of sand between their toes.