--- product_id: 127314430 title: "Tides and the Ocean: Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to Whirlpools" price: "220.79 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/127314430-tides-and-the-ocean-waters-movement-around-the-world-from store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Visual tidal maps & ocean cycles Large-format hardcover design Next-day UK warehouse dispatch Tides and the Ocean: Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to Whirlpools **Price:** 220.79 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌍 Ride the wave of ocean knowledge before it’s gone! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Tides and the Ocean: Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to Whirlpools - **How much does it cost?** 220.79 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/127314430-tides-and-the-ocean-waters-movement-around-the-world-from) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Ready When You Are:** Dispatched next working day from the UK, so your ocean exploration starts without delay. - • **Dive Deep into Ocean Rhythms:** Explore tides, waves, and whirlpools with stunning graphic renderings that bring the sea’s hidden movements to life. - • **Travel-Inspired Authenticity:** Inspired by real-world coastal journeys, blending personal adventure with scientific curiosity. - • **Eco-Conscious Ocean Awareness:** Engage with the urgent message of ocean health and sustainability woven throughout the narrative. - • **Perfect for Coastal Adventurers:** Essential insights for surfers, sailors, kayakers, and fishermen to master water currents and tidal shifts. ## Overview Tides and the Ocean is a visually rich, large-format hardcover book that demystifies the subtle and powerful movements of the world’s seas—from tides and waves to tsunamis and whirlpools. Inspired by the author’s coastal travels, it combines graphic tidal maps with practical insights for water enthusiasts, emphasizing ocean health and sustainability. Ideal for surfers, sailors, and anyone passionate about understanding the dynamic forces shaping our shorelines, it ships quickly from the UK for immediate discovery. ## Description Surfers, sailors, and anyone who loves the ocean will enjoy this visual exploration of the world's seas along its shores, including rip tides, swells, waves, and tsunamis. Tide is the vertical motion of water, something so subtle it is impossible to see with the naked eye. Inspired by his travels around the world's coastline in a camper van with his young family, William Thomson captures the cycles of the sea's movement, and intersperses his adventures surfing the waves and charting the tides. Throughout Tides and the Ocean are his graphic renderings of unusual tidal maps, as well as other forms of water movement, including rip, rapids, swell, stream, tide, wave, whirlpool, and tsunami. Tides and the Ocean explains how the tides surge when the moon and sun align with the earth; how ocean streams alternate direction every six hours (which is invaluable information for kayakers, paddle boarders, and fishermen); why skyscraper-sized tsunamis occur frequently in an Alaskan Bay; and the most deadly beach orientation for rip currents. Also emphasized throughout is the importance of keeping the world's oceans healthy and full of life. Published in time for beach travel, this large-format hardcover is ideal for anyone who knows and loves the sea, and who wants to understand, discover, surf, or sail it better. Review: Beautiful book - Innovative presentation of something beyond global that people rarely notice locally in their distracted lives Review: Disappointing - I had hoped for something more detailed and technical, with decent graphics, but no- this book seems aimed at middle-school students rather than adults. Cursory explanations of some interesting phenomena, but goes off on tangents away from the subject of tidal variation. The author is clearly a believer in anthropogenic global warming, and states projected sea level rise values as fact. The lack of decent graphics or photographs is inexcusable- they are easily captured and published these days. ## Features - Orders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 834,155 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 382 in Oceanography 913 in Physical Geography 1,704 in Boating | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 34 Reviews | ## Images ![Tides and the Ocean: Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to Whirlpools - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-0RfYeVcL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful book *by S***. on 7 March 2021* Innovative presentation of something beyond global that people rarely notice locally in their distracted lives ### ⭐⭐⭐ Disappointing *by G***N on 10 July 2024* I had hoped for something more detailed and technical, with decent graphics, but no- this book seems aimed at middle-school students rather than adults. Cursory explanations of some interesting phenomena, but goes off on tangents away from the subject of tidal variation. The author is clearly a believer in anthropogenic global warming, and states projected sea level rise values as fact. The lack of decent graphics or photographs is inexcusable- they are easily captured and published these days. ### ⭐ A Coffee Table Book on Tides -- Short on Substance, Poor Graphics *by M***H on 14 May 2022* Written by a surfer and paddleboarder, William Thomson, this is a large-sized coffee table book on such topics as tides, tsunamis, and plastic in the worlds oceans. Part travelogue and memoire, the text jumps around from topic to topic. Nearly each page of text on the left is accompanied by a graphic created by the author on the right. Unfortunately, the highly stylized graphics, done with tablet on computer, look like corporate logos or the designs you might find on a t-shirt at surf shop, and don't do a good job of conveying information. Thomson surrounds nearly every diagram with the same circle against a gray backdrop with serves no purpose. Information that is best presented in three-dimensions is often represented in two which is very confusing. Maps in the diagrams, of which there are very many, are simply black landmasses with no detail against a gray background and are very difficult to interpret. The graphics are very lazily created, often made of featureless polygons. The low point in the book for me was on page 111, where the author portrays an incoming meteor as long, two-tone gray rectangular solid with a red tail that looks like a jet exhaust. It looks a kid's wooden block from a building block set that is somehow is appearing on horizon. A wide-ranging traveler, the author describes many interesting places he's seen, like the Saltstaumen Whirlpool in Norway and the Qiantang River Tidal Bore, but there are no photographs whatsoever in the book, so it's hard to get an idea of what the author is talking about from just his laconic descriptions and distorted diagrams. The author is no scientist and no science writer with a gift for explanation, so it's not worth reading the book through for the few interesting tidbits of information you might glean. In short this is book that might be pretty to look at for some, but not for those who want to learn about tides, tsunamis, waves, or other aspects of oceanography. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/127314430-tides-and-the-ocean-waters-movement-around-the-world-from](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/127314430-tides-and-the-ocean-waters-movement-around-the-world-from) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-08-01*