In The Tide, celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of scientific thinking with the literature and folklore the tide has inspired to explain the power and workings of this most remarkable force. Here is the epic story of the long search to understand the tide: from Aristotle, who is said to have drowned himself in his efforts to figure out the Greek tides, to the pioneering investigations into the role of the moon...

George, the Man in the Yellow Hat, and Marco head to the beach and dig for clams, swim with dolphins, and bury treasure, but when the water comes in and takes their treasure away, they learn all about tides.