Tides: the science and spirit of the ocean

Foreword / by Peter Matthiessen --

In deep : an introduction --

The perfect dance : birds and big tides in the Bay of Fundy --

Star of our life : a meditation on tide history at Mont Saint-Michel --

Silver dragon : China's Qiantang River tidal bore --

The last magician : Sir Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution --

Big waves : surfing mavericks and nineteenth-century tide theories --

Fast water : how tidal currents slow the Earth and bend time --

Big tides and resonance : Fundy and Ungava --

Turning the tide : grinding wheat, powering homes --

Higher tides : sea level rise from Kuna Yala to Venice.