Abstract
THE title of this book is perhaps slightly misleading. It is not a hydrographical treatise giving all the details of the propagation of the tide in the Severn, with ranges of tide, times of rising and falling, and so forth. Its main object is to relate the activities of the residents on the banks of the river to the flow and ebb of the tide. Nevertheless, the author gives many details regarding the famous Severn bore which are not to be found elsewhere ; but these are scattered among many other things. It is as though the author takes the reader on a pilgrimage up and down the river, and in a leisurely way talks with all and sundry, exhibits interest in the details of their lives and occupations, their fishing and their farming, and so on, with intimate touches on how the tide in this river influences their lives.
Severn Tide
By Brian Waters. Pp. vii + 183 + 16 plates. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1947.) 15s. net.
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D., A. Severn Tide. Nature 161, 790 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161790c0
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