Life Between the Tides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Between the Tides write by Adam Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-02-22. Life Between the Tides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello. Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course different currents of endless motion—the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward propulsion of the passage of time, and the tiny lifetimes of the rock pool’s creatures, all of which coalesce into the grand narrative of evolution. In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawn’s head become a medieval helmet and a group of “winkles” transform into a Dickensian social scene, with mollusks munching on Stilton and glancing at their pocket watches. Or, rather, is a winkle more like Achilles, an ancient hero, throwing himself toward death for the sake of glory? For Nicolson, who writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (The American Scholar), the world of the rock pools is infinite and as intricate as our own. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers—no one can escape the pull of the sea. We meet Virginia Woolf and her Waves; a young T. S. Eliot peering into his own rock pool in Massachusetts; even Nicolson’s father-in-law, a classical scholar who would hunt for amethysts along the shoreline, his mind on Heraclitus and the other philosophers of ancient Greece. And, of course, scientists populate the pages; not only their discoveries, but also their doubts and errors, their moments of quiet observation and their thrilling realizations. Everything is within the rock pools, where you can look beyond your own reflection and find the miraculous an inch beneath your nose. “The soul wants to be wet,” Heraclitus said in Ephesus twenty-five hundred years ago. This marvelous book demonstrates why it is so. Includes Color and Black-and-White Photographs
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore write by Adam Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-06-24. Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 ‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.
The Sea Is Not Made of Water
The Sea Is Not Made of Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sea Is Not Made of Water write by Adam Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-06. The Sea Is Not Made of Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Miraculous ... An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew' PHILIP HOARE Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Light We Cannot See write by Anthony Doerr. This book was released on 2014-05-06. All the Light We Cannot See available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Water Sings Blue
Water Sings Blue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Sings Blue write by Kate Coombs. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Water Sings Blue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.
