THIS book has the salt-soaked readability of Dava Sobel鈥檚 Longitude. Like the good sailor he clearly is, Dallas Murphy can tell a tale, and he displays the same knack as Sobel for getting the nuances of both science and history just right. This story is of ocean currents, focusing on the Gulf Stream: how it 鈥渕ade鈥� America, how we have come to understand it and how it may unmake us all if it switches off. Murphy is as at home analysing gyres and the graveyards of Norse Greenlanders as he is discussing the motivations of Fridtjof Nansen and Al Gore. An effortless journey of discovery.
To Follow the Water
Basic Books
