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White, Jonathan, 1956-
Subjects
Tides.
Tidal flats.
Tidal power.
Sea level.
Ocean.
Climatic changes.
Human ecology.
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White, Jonathan, 1956-
Tides.
Tidal flats.
Tidal power.
Sea level.
Ocean.
Climatic changes.
Human ecology.
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Tides
: the
science
and
spirit
of the
ocean
/ Jonathan White ; foreword by Peter Matthiessen.
by
White, Jonathan, 1956-
Trinity University Press, 2017.
Call #:
551.464 W585t
Subjects
Tides
.
Tidal flats.
Tidal power.
Sea level.
Ocean
.
Climatic changes.
Human ecology.
ISBN:
9781595348050 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 335 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-326) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Peter Matthiessen -- In deep : an introduction -- 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.
Summary:
"Marine conservationist, 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
. Author Jonathan White lives on a small island in Washington State"--Provided by publisher.
Other authors:
Matthiessen, Peter.
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