Title:
Tides : The science and spirit of the ocean
Author:
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, ©2017
Physical Description:
xvi, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly black and white), maps, charts ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781595348050
Contents:
The perfect dance: birds and big tides in the Bay of Fundy -- Star of our life: a meditation on tide history at Mont Saint-Michel -- Silver dragon: China's Qiantang River tidal bore -- The last magician: Sir Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution -- Big waves: surfing mavericks and nineteenth-century tide theories -- Fast water: how tidal currents slow the Earth and bend time -- Big tides and resonance: Fundy and Ungava -- Turning the tide: grinding wheat, powering homes -- Higher tides: sea level rise from Kuna Yala to Venice.
Language:
English
