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First prize winner in the Nature and Place category at the 2011 EDP\/Jarrolds East Anglian Book Awards  Short-listed in the Best Non-Fiction Book 2011category by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain  \"One of the most beautifully produced modern books I have ever handled, inspiredly illustrated and designed\" - Robert Macfarlane  Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the edge of the East Anglian bulge, completing 400 miles on foot and a further 100 miles in a variety of boats. This is a coast that is about to be lost: not yet, perhaps, but soon. A thousand years ago a king commanded the waves to retreat to show human futility in the face of nature. Others built sea walls and estuary defences. Small stretches of cliffs provided natural protection, as did shingle heaped into banks. Sea walls were raised, yet still churches, houses and whole settlements fell into the sea.  This process continues inexorably. 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