And soon I heard a roaring wind: A natural history of moving air
Streever, B. (2016). And soon I heard a roaring wind: A natural history of moving air. Little, Brown and Company: New York. ISBN 978-0-316-41060-1. 308 pp.
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VLIZ: Fiction FIC.125 [102643]
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. |
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