Australian Beach Cultures

Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture.

Douglas Booth

Prof.Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology)
"necessary reading...This is the book on the history of beach culture in Australia for which all of us concerned with Australian popular culture have been waiting."
The Manly Daily
"Booth has created a social history of Australia