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    Pools win LUCY LETHBRIDGE The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    By Adam Nicolson

    William Collins £20

    The great Victorian naturalist Philip Gosse is remembered in Adam Nicolson’s new book not for being the unbending religious fundamentalist of his son Edmund’s memoir, but as the godfather of rockpool wonderment.

    These shoreline cups, nourished by the in and out of the tides, are teeming miniature theatres of life. ‘Never more great than when minutely great’, Gosse said of the tiny glories of the rockpool.

    In Nicolson describes how

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