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Author White, Jonathan, 1956- author.

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

Publication Info. San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, ©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  551.46 WHITE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  BLT 551.46 WHITE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  551.46 WHITE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  551.464 WHITE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  551.464 WHITE    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  551.464 WHITE    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly black and white), maps, charts ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-326) and index.
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.
Subject Tides.
Water.
Ocean.
Oceanography.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
Ocean. (OCoLC)fst01043442
Oceanography. (OCoLC)fst01043671
Tides. (OCoLC)fst01150792
Water. (OCoLC)fst01171139
Added Author Matthiessen, Peter, writer of forward.
ISBN 9781595348050 (hardback)
1595348050 (hardback)
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