The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

Hardcover, first edition, first printing. Fine condition throughout. Dust jacket fine, with no marks. Pages clean and unmarked. First edition. Published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2022. Sarah Stodola has written about travel and culture for the New York Times, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. The Last Resort traces the history of beach resort culture from its roots in fashionable European society to its present role in the global economy, examining the strangleholds these resorts often place on local economies, reckless construction, beach erosion, heavy carbon footprints, and the cycles of overdevelopment and decline that follow a surge in popularity. Stodola travels from Monte Carlo, where the pursuit of pleasure first became central to the beach resort experience, to a village in Fiji irrevocably changed by the opening of a single resort, to Acapulco's fall from exclusivity, to Miami Beach's extreme present-day measures against rising water. Named one of the best books of summer 2022 by Esquire and Town & Country, and praised by the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, among others. ISBN 978-0-06-295162-5. Ships from Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.