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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air

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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air - Streever, Bill
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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, ...

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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air 2016, Little Brown and Company

ISBN-13: 9780316410601

Hardcover