{"product_id":"living-will-say-hello-picador-shorts-paperback","title":"Living Will Say Hello (Picador Shorts) (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, quirky, and soulful portrait of the many lives that swirl and teem in that microcosm of the universe, the ocean rock pool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this standalone extract from Adam Nicolson’s \u003ci\u003eLife Between the Tides\u003c\/i\u003e, the reader gets a close-up view of some of the ocean’s most intriguing characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this distilled version of the powerful, revelatory \u003ci\u003eLife Between the Tides\u003c\/i\u003e, Adam Nicolson takes the reader on a wonder-filled tour of some of the animal residents of the rock pools that are the stage for so much of the life and poetry of the ocean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe visit with the sandhopper, prawn, winkle, crab, and anemone, and each episode reenacts the book’s idea of the inner drama of life in this cloistered and vibrant space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicolson writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (\u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e). He animates the world of the rock pool and provides an essential perspective on a marine world as intricate and infinite as our own and not much further off than the tips of our noses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiving Will Say Hello \u003c\/i\u003eis part of the Picador Shorts series “Oceans, Rivers, and Streams,” in which excerpts from beloved classics speak to our relationship with our water bodies, great and small.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicolson, Adam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337305256210,"sku":"9781250391254","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/4827473482633.jpg?v=1780440228","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/living-will-say-hello-picador-shorts-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}