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The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
by Adam Nicolson
Life Between the Tides is an in-depth exploration into the life and death in tidal pools in the beautiful Oban/Mull area in Scotland as water ebbs and flows. The author includes natural science information about many sea creatures themselves, refers to related myths and legends with cultural perspectives, gives philosophical viewpoints on humans and our relationships with nature, discusses Darwin's natural selection, knock-on effect and fractal lines, to name a few.
Examining tidal pools is like observing another world entirely. I often do this when at the sea and am always amazed at what I see and experience. As the author says, we enjoy the peace and calm of the sea. But for the tiny creatures living in tidal pools it is anything but! Tiny creatures jump and scatter to avoid capture. Heat can melt others. Sandhoppers are capable of shredding plastic, inadvertently adding to pollution. That limpets can detect danger two feet away while stuck onto a rock is amazing to me. Conches can jump! And I had no idea that is how crabs copulate. For ages I have wondered whether these animals have emotions or sense pain...yet another topic in this book.
My favourite aspects of this book are the location (I know that area of Scotland) and the information on the habits of hermit crabs, winkles, whelks, anemones, coralline, various wracks, dabs, sandpipers, shrimps and kelp and others. The writing is beautifully descriptive, as I had hoped.
My sincere thank you to Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the privilege of reading this absorbing book. I learned a lot!
Examining tidal pools is like observing another world entirely. I often do this when at the sea and am always amazed at what I see and experience. As the author says, we enjoy the peace and calm of the sea. But for the tiny creatures living in tidal pools it is anything but! Tiny creatures jump and scatter to avoid capture. Heat can melt others. Sandhoppers are capable of shredding plastic, inadvertently adding to pollution. That limpets can detect danger two feet away while stuck onto a rock is amazing to me. Conches can jump! And I had no idea that is how crabs copulate. For ages I have wondered whether these animals have emotions or sense pain...yet another topic in this book.
My favourite aspects of this book are the location (I know that area of Scotland) and the information on the habits of hermit crabs, winkles, whelks, anemones, coralline, various wracks, dabs, sandpipers, shrimps and kelp and others. The writing is beautifully descriptive, as I had hoped.
My sincere thank you to Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the privilege of reading this absorbing book. I learned a lot!