currents and waves in an accessible way whilst revealing how they have been responsible for both salvation (the Channel alone checked the Nazi advance in 1940) and disaster (such as the catastrophic 1953 flooding that led to the ingenious development of the Thames tidal barrier)
'Exhilarating' – The Observer'The real journey here is one of self-discovery' – The Mail on Sunday
The reference section provides key background information
engineers and political leaders on both sides
We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses
The Empusium : A Health Resort Horror Story LimitedStock currents and waves in anAuthor(s): Tokarczuk, Olga Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 26 09 2024, Pagination: 336 pages, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781804271087, Description: In September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and