Life Between the Tides

In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore

By: Adam Nicolson

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Paperback | 8 March 2023

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.
How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its companions? What does a prawn know?

In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson explores the natural wonders of the shoreline, from the extraordinary biology of its curious animals to the flow of our human history. This is an invitation to the water, where marvellous things wait an inch below the surface.

Previously published as The Sea is Not Made of Water

About the Author

Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on at Sissinghust Castle in Kent. His most recent book for HarperCollins is Sissinghurst, a wonderful and personal biography of a place – the story of a heritage, of a vision of connecting once more buildings and garden, fields and farms and of how that dream was realised.

Industry Reviews

‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ - EDMUND DE WAAL

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