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Watching breakers roll onto a Cornish beach, the author of the best-selling Cloudspotter's Guide decided to find out where they came from. The result was this erudite and entertaining book. After describing the types of ocean wave and the forces that drive them, he explains the invisible waves that shape our universe - light waves, sound waves, shock waves - and those, such as radio and X-rays, that we harness in our technology.
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About the Author
Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society and author of two Sunday Times bestsellers, The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Cloud Collector's Handbook. He also co-founded the Idler, a magazine that defends the noble art of doing nothing. Gavin loves watching waves in every form, whether on the seashore or around a football stadium, and has learned to enjoy their subtle and beautiful progress through our lives. He lives in Somerset.
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'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
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0747589763
- ISBN 13 9780747589761
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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