Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers
| AUTHOR | Sandlin, Lee; Sandlin, Lee |
| PUBLISHER | Vintage (03/11/2014) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
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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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780307473585
ISBN-10:
0307473589
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
320
Carton Quantity:
24
Product Dimensions:
5.19 x 0.69 x 8.11 inches
Weight:
0.65 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Price on Product - Canadian,
Price on Product,
Maps,
Table of Contents,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
Biography & Autobiography | Weather
Biography & Autobiography | United States - General
Dewey Decimal:
551.553
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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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