The sea is not made of water : life between the tides /
by Nicolson, Adam; Boxer, Kate; Nicolson, Rosie.
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BookPublisher: London : William Collins, 2021Description: xiv, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780008294779 (hbk.) :; 0008294771 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 577.699 NICSubject(s): Seashore | Intertidal ecology | Intertidal organisms | Environment and ecology | Environment and Ecology | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Oceans & seas | English | Biography: science, technology & medicine | Biology, life sciencesSummary: We go to the seaside for consolation and simplicity. Demands and anxieties drop away there. But there are ironies in choosing the shore as a place of reassurance. Nothing about the intertidal can be relied on. Twice a day, every day, change dominates its existence: wetness, dryness, freshness, saltiness, warmth, cool, storm, calm, light, dark. Every part of life here is dedicated to surviving and thriving in a world of alteration. In this book, prize-winning and bestselling author Adam Nicolson explores one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. He looks at the extraordinary mirroring of human and animal life on its shores, in pools that are silent and beautiful yet as full of threat as any rats' alley or Roman circus. And at the remarkable, dedicated naturalists who made study of life in the intertidal their life's work.
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| 576.83 DAW The ancestor's tale: | 577.3094 RAC Woodlands | 577.4609 LEW The running hare : the secret life of farmland / | 577.699 NIC The sea is not made of water : life between the tides / | 577.82 GIL Ecosystems | 578.0941 STE Collins complete British wildlife photoguide | 578.77 HON Blue planet II / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We go to the seaside for consolation and simplicity. Demands and anxieties drop away there. But there are ironies in choosing the shore as a place of reassurance. Nothing about the intertidal can be relied on. Twice a day, every day, change dominates its existence: wetness, dryness, freshness, saltiness, warmth, cool, storm, calm, light, dark. Every part of life here is dedicated to surviving and thriving in a world of alteration. In this book, prize-winning and bestselling author Adam Nicolson explores one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. He looks at the extraordinary mirroring of human and animal life on its shores, in pools that are silent and beautiful yet as full of threat as any rats' alley or Roman circus. And at the remarkable, dedicated naturalists who made study of life in the intertidal their life's work.
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