Storm Kings

Storm Kings
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780307473585
ISBN-13 : 0307473589
Rating : 4/5 (589 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Storm Kings by : Lee Sandlin

Download or read book Storm Kings written by Lee Sandlin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.


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