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Loading... And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Airby Bill Streever
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. a review of the history of meteorology, interspersed with a travelogue by an amateur sailor/professor.I don't have enough of a background to have appreciated more of the science ( and math) but would have liked to hear more about the lives of the different meteorology figures presented. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"Offers entertaining and science-based observations on the wind, from the world's first forecasts, to Chaos Theory, wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes and wind-generated power. By the best-selling author of Cold and Heat,"--NoveList.
The gnashing teeth of an oncoming storm. Wind-launched missiles and wind-tossed airplanes. Sand dunes and the Dust Bowl, shipwrecks and wind-riding spiders, weather forecasting, wind power, windmills, and wars; on page after page of his brisk and fascinating book, Bill Streever reveals wind's real nature--and its history-shaping force. Seeking a deep immersion in his subject, Streever will go to any extreme. So, after a three-day course, this novice sailor set out on a vintage fifty-year-old sailboat named after Don Quixote's horse, and sailed east from Texas to Guatemala over 43 days and 1000 miles. How better to explore and experience the winds that built empires, the storms that wrecked them, and the surprising history and science of moving air? From history's great violent storms to the impacts of weather on life and business, from wind's energy to its power to give and destroy life, this is a thrilling read.--Adapted from dust jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)551.518Natural sciences and mathematics Earth sciences & geology Geology, Hydrology Meteorology Meteorology; Climate Atmospheric currents; WindsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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