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Tides - The Science and Spirit of the Ocean (Paperback)
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Tides - The Science and Spirit of the Ocean (Paperback)
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List price R586
Loot Price R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
You Save R155 (26%)
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and
surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover
the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White
shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in
the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the
Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty
miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks
that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in
Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power
generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat
of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very
new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and
provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious
paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion.
Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color
photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the
tides.
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