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Title: The Tide

Subtitle: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

Here is the epic story of the centuries-long search to understand the tide: from Aristotle, said to have drowned himself when he failed to figure out the Greek tides, to the pioneering investigations into the role of the moon by Galileo and Newton to supercomputing in our own time. Celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams whisks the listener along on his travels to Nova Scotia, where the tides are the strongest in the world; to arctic Norway, home of the raging tidal whirlpool known as the maelstrom; and to Venice, to explore efforts to defend against the famed acqua alta. Along the way Aldersey-Williams reveals the tidal truths behind the legends of Scylla and Charybdis, the story of Moses parting the Red Sea, the conquests of Julius Caesar, the Boston Tea Party, and the D-day landings in Normandy.

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