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Book SynopsisOne bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, GavinPretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching thewaves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had comefrom, and decided to find out. He soon realised that waves don''t justappear on the ocean, they are everywhere around us, and our livesdepend on them.
From the rippling beats of our hearts, to the movement of food throughour digestive tracts and of signals across our brains, waves are thetransport systems of our bodies. Everything we see and hear reaches usvia light and sound waves, and our information age is reliant on themicrowaves and infrared waves used by the telephone and internetinfrastructure. From shockwaves unleashed by explosions to torsionalwaves that cause suspension bridges to collapse, from sonar waves thatallow submarines to see'' with sound to Mexican waves that sweepthrough stadium crowds... there were waves, it seemed, wherever Gavinlooked. But what, he wondered, co
Trade Review'Page after page is patient, open, rational and clear.... an eye opening experience' * Daily Mail *
'Pretor-Pinney is clever, passionate, indomitable in his determination to share his knowledge.' * Daily Telegraph *
‘He is an entertaining and informal teacher... a unique book' * Daily Mail *
'Dotted with photos and diagrams, The Wavewatcher's Companion is a perfectly paced combination of whimsical, digressive wonder and in-depth knowledge that renders a potentially esoteric subject engaging to all' * Financial Times *
