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Rain [electronic resource]

Cynthia Barnett2015
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"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 Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villa...
Main title:
Rain [electronic resource] / Cynthia Barnett
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[Place of publication not identified] : Crown, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780804137102
Language:
English
BRN:
428808
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