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
Author:
Cynthia Barnett, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Crown, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780804137102
Language:
English
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BRN:
428808
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