Rock Pool: Extraordinary Encounters Between the Tides: A Life-long Obsession told in Twenty Creatures: A Life-long Obsession told in Twenty-Four Creatures

by HeatherButtivant (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $22.58

  This is the story of a women who couldn't leave the sea, turning a childhood fascination into a career and a calling. A writer and scientist who has spent decades with her hands immersed in freezing water, waiting and observing, uncovering the extraordinary secrets of the small creatures who survive in the shifting sands and draining pools between the tides. Focusing on a single creature per chapter Buttivant uses the retreating tides as a way to take us deeper into her own story, as well as the secrets of the sea.