In Tides The Science and Spirit of the Ocean writer sailor and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide in China he races the Silver Dragon a twentyfivefoot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River in France he interviews the monks that live in the tidewrapped monastery of Mont SaintMichel in Chile and Scotland he investigates the growth of tidal power generation and in Panama and Venice he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose colorful adventure travel and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental mysterious paradox that keeps our planets waters in constant motion.