Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean - Jonathan White torrent

Category: Adults, Adventure
Language: EnglishKeywords: Nature Travel
Written by Jonathan White
Read by Dan Woren
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Peter Matthiessen - Author of introduction, etc.
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: February 14, 2017
Duration: 11:17:34
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 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.
“Maintaining a pleasant, engaged pace, Dan Woren narrates this sweeping yet intimate meditation on tides. The author visited the sites of remarkable tidal phenomena around the world to experience them personally and to speak with experts; Woren performs their remarks with lightly applied accents, which some listeners may find off-putting. The pronunciation of technical and foreign words is handled with only a few minor missteps. The printed book contains photographs, maps, and figures, which are not included in the audio presentation. Although these illustrations do contribute to one’s understanding of the astronomical and physical forces that create and shape tides, these concepts are adequately explained by the text, and Woren delivers them with understanding and authority.”— AudioFile
I included an ebook.
Peter Matthiessen - Author of introduction, etc.

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: February 14, 2017
Duration: 11:17:34

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 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.

“Maintaining a pleasant, engaged pace, Dan Woren narrates this sweeping yet intimate meditation on tides. The author visited the sites of remarkable tidal phenomena around the world to experience them personally and to speak with experts; Woren performs their remarks with lightly applied accents, which some listeners may find off-putting. The pronunciation of technical and foreign words is handled with only a few minor missteps. The printed book contains photographs, maps, and figures, which are not included in the audio presentation. Although these illustrations do contribute to one’s understanding of the astronomical and physical forces that create and shape tides, these concepts are adequately explained by the text, and Woren delivers them with understanding and authority.”— AudioFile

I included an ebook.