A shifting shore : locals, outsiders, and the transformation of a French fishing town, 1823-2000
Garner traces the ways fisherfolk, bathers, investors, and engineers understood, claimed, and remade the shores of the Bassin d'Arcachon, a prime fishing and oyster-farming site in southwestern France, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
History
286 p : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
9780801442827, 0801442826
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