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Tides
- The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners 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 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 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.
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- NeilAlaska
- 16-11-22
Good story, accents offputting
Accents were all nearly identical, slightly irritating. Just a note, perhaps drop accents when reading.
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- Fred
- 02-12-22
Interesting but...
This is an interesting book that opened me to new areas. It's not at the Bill Bryson level of bringing such topics to life, and the journey is a bit dispersed (perhaps like the tide).
The narration is good although needs some practice on accents (they all seemed same!)
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- Rob Dublin
- 05-02-22
Excellent book for those interested in the oceans
I kayak and this book has really opened my eyes to the complexity of the rhythms of the tides.
It is done in a very accessible way, with the use of anecdotes and analogies to explain tidal harmonics.
Using example of famous tides or tidal bores around the world, the principles of how they happen is explained very well.
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- Mrs. L. Stonehouse
- 19-01-22
science made more interesting by real stories
Good science, all the complicated things which contribute to tidal flows around the globe. found it a slow start but got more into it as it went. the dodgy accents can be patronising and borderline unacceptable, luckily they are few and far between. otherwise the narration is good.
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- P. J. H.
- 13-08-22
Stick with it
Fascinating book full of interesting detail. The first chapter isn’t a great start but it gets much better afterwards. Chris F should have persisted for longer, or skipped forwards…
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- Chris F
- 02-10-21
Beyond dull
I've managed a couple of hours listening and around 45 minutes of it has been about a type of bird that feeds on a certain type of shrimp which lives in an inter tidal zone. I understand why it's related to tides, but there is just no need for this level of detail unless you're an avid bird watcher or someone with a deep and abiding interest in inter tidal dwelling shrimps.
It's just dull. I haven't learned anything about tides, although there has been a little about animals syncing with local tides in the same way that the circadian rhythm is an adaptation to light and dark cycles.
I simply can't understand who would find this level of detail about something only tangentially related to tides, interesting.
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- JOhn
- 21-03-22
not bad
very interesting in places and with science that was almost simple enough for me to follow. narration was very good....xcept for the toe-curling foreign accent that was given to all non-anglophones.
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