The Wave Watcher's Companion: Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations

If you're a surfer, water-man, or an ocean lover who likes to study and know more about your passion, get the book. It is a good way to maintain stoke when the waves are flat too! Knowledge is power.

I have not finished yet but so far as I can see this is truly a science book so the info is great but hard to digest. I had to read many passages more than once. Great info though and worth having i you are a water enthusiast.

This is the second copy of the book that I have purchased. I loaned/gave my first copy to a friend. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and think that the author has a great sense of humor as well a a good understanding of waves. I wish that I would have read it as a high school text.

Lots of information presented in a very managable and entertaining way.

I bought this used almost on a whim. I've read books on ocean waves, oceanography, I kayak and study waves, this book covers a lot of familiar topics and details, adding things I'd never known, and describing aspects of waves in new and interesting ways. It's a joy to read.

The concept was good but the product is defective. After giving an explanation of what wave motion is that is consistent with the phenomenon as understood by scientists and mathematicians, the author proceeds to disown it. Some topics are effectively covered, such as how a wave's size determines its interaction with its environment. However the author ignores his own rule that things that look like waves aren't necessarily so. Water humping over an obstacle in its path is not a standing wave, a breaking ocean wave is not a shock wave. When the author tries to be a physics teacher and explain the blue coloring in the wings of the morpho butterfly he gets a D- at best. The book is written to entertain but more obviously to line the author's pocket. The dust jacket of the copy I wasted my money on refers to a website, [...]. This site does not exist but is good evidence that the author had hoped to start an industry with his wave book much as he has done with his book about clouds.

This book will significantly improve your life. Go read it.

My daughter bought this for a class at college and loves it.

I’m well chuffed. Great book, in goog tid, and arrived well within the time estimate. Cheers bud. 😘

Great for windsurfing obsessives, and other marine maniacs.