Tides
Subtitle: the science and spirit of the ocean
By: Jonathan White ; foreword by Peter Matthiessen
Contributors: Matthiessen, Peter, writer of foreword
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781595348050
Subjects: Climatic changes; Tides; Tidal flats; Tidal power; Human ecology; Sea level; Ocean
Notes: "Glossary": pages 290-293.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: In deep : an introduction; title: The perfect dance : birds and big tides in the Bay of Fundy; title: Star of our life : a meditation on tide history at Mont Saint-Michel; title: Silver dragon : China's Qiantang River tidal bore; title: The last magician : Sir Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution; title: Big waves : surfing Mavericks and nineteenth-century tide theories; title: Fast water : how tidal currents slow the earth and bend time; title: Big tides and resonance : Fundy and Ungava; title: Turning the tide : grinding wheat, powering homes; title: Higher tides : sea level rise from Kuna Yala to Venice.