Wind
how the flow of air has shaped life, myth, and the land
by Jan DeBlieu
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In Wind, Jan DeBlieu brings a poet's voice and a scientist's eye to this remarkable natural force, showing how the bumping of a few molecules can lead to the creation of religions, the discovery of continents, the destruction of empires.
DeBlieu visits the weather observatory at the summit of Mount Washington, where some of the highest wind speeds in the world have been recorded. She talks to survivors of a deadly tornado in Iowa, tries hang gliding over North Carolina's Outer Banks, climbs sand dunes in Oregon and slickrock formations in Utah - everywhere exploring the effects, subtle and brutal, comforting and terrifying, of the wind.
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Wind: how the flow of air has shaped life, myth, and the land
1999, Houghton Mifflin
in English
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
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Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
July 15, 1998, Houghton Mifflin
in English
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Wind: how the flow of air has shaped life, myth, and the land
1998, Houghton Mifflin
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index.
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"IT BEGINS with a subtle stirring caused by sunlight falling on the vapors that swaddle the earth."
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