Rain A Natural and Cultural History
eBook - 2015
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before ...modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to...
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File Size | 8 GB |
ISBN | 9780804137102 |
Release Date | 4/28/2015 |
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ASIN | B00N6PET5S |
Release Date | 4/28/2015 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 7 GB |
ISBN | 9780804137102 |
Release Date | 4/28/2015 |