The Sussex Coast

The Sussex coast has attracted people for thousands of years - for foraging fishing trade and defence and more recently for retirement and leisure. Settlements are destroyed as the sea advances or stranded as it retreats; living here is exciting - and risky. Now that nearly one million people live on the Sussex coast the problem of managing the relationship between people and the sea has become acute. A landscape history approach is used in this book drawing on history geography geology archaeology and the latest findings on coastal processes to describe the trialogue between people land and sea. This is essential reading for all who love the Sussex coast are curious about its past and concerned about its future. 317pp with 135 black and white illustrations.