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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Nicolson, Adam, 1957- author.     Subjects     Tide pool ecology.     Seashore ecology.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nicolson, Adam, 1957- author.       by title:      Life between the tid...         MARC Display

Life between the tides / Adam Nicolson ; animals and heroes by Kate Boxer ; maps and figures by Rosie Nicolson. by Nicolson, Adam, 1957- author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Subjects Tide pool ecology.   Seashore ecology. ISBN:  9780374251437 (hardcover) : 0374251436 (hardcover) : Description:  xiv, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First American edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawns 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 poets 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   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 577.699 Ni Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 577.699 Ni Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 577.699 Ni Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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