Tides : The science and spirit of the ocean / Jonathan Whited ; foreword by Peter Matthiessen.

Author/creator White, Jonathan, 1956- author.
Other author Matthiessen, Peter author of introduction, etc.
Format Book
PublicationSan Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxvi, 335 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
General noteIncludes index and glossary.
ISBN9781595348050 hardcover
ISBN1595348050 hardcover