Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions
lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to
rules that are a mystery to almost all of us. In The Tide,
celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together
centuries of scientific thinking with the literature and folklore
the tide has inspired to explain the power and workings of this
most remarkable force. Here is the epic story of the long search to
understand the tide from Aristotle, to Galileo and Newton, to
classic literary portrayals of the tide from Shakespeare to
Dickens, Melville to Jules Verne. Throughout, Aldersey-Williams
whisks the reader along on his travels: He visits the Bay of Fundy
in Nova Scotia, where the tides are the strongest in the world;
arctic Norway, home of the raging tidal whirlpool known as the
maelstrom; and Venice, to investigate efforts to defend the city
against flooding caused by the famed acqua alta.
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