Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Beach written by Robert Drewe and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average Australian has conducted a lifelong love affair with the beach and the ocean shores, bays, dunes, lagoons and rivers of the coast. Until now, however, no one has attempted to match the ancient sensual and artistic preoccupation with the sea to the intuitive appreciation of the coast felt by modern beachgoers. In this illustrious international selection, Robert Drewe has drawn together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, humorous and deeply moving writing about the beach.