The Gulf Stream: Encounters With the Blue God
by William H. MacLeish
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In writing about life in and around the gulf stream, this book draws on folklore, science, technology and poetry to describe three years spent drifting around the great river within the sea. He has also written Oil and Water.Tags
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John_Vaughan MacLeish is no classroom prof. He gets his feet wet.
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This work is actually quite deep science, but never boring as William MacLeish is always ‘getting wet’. In describing the Gulf Stream he goes under it, and with the reader, hovers above it in a shared imaginary space-craft, sails across it, surfs in it ….
The authors years of research and study in Oceanography – in Woods Hole, the libraries and ship’s rocking, heaving holds - grants the reader such rich depth of experience, and the sheer enjoyment of his prose clearly communicates his passion and excitement.
This is the book to read about the ‘river in the sea’ that so fascinated Ben Franklin.
The authors years of research and study in Oceanography – in Woods Hole, the libraries and ship’s rocking, heaving holds - grants the reader such rich depth of experience, and the sheer enjoyment of his prose clearly communicates his passion and excitement.
This is the book to read about the ‘river in the sea’ that so fascinated Ben Franklin.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 551.471 — Natural sciences & mathematics Earth sciences; geology Geology, Hydrology Meteorology Landforms / Bodies of Water Ocean currents Atlantic; North Sea; Baltic
- LCC
- GC296 .M33 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Oceanography Oceanography Dynamics of the ocean Currents
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