| Description |
viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-319). |
| Contents |
Davis strait -- The hourly -- First principles -- The cloud forest -- The serpent's coil -- God's roof -- The mother ship -- Volta do mar -- Safely out to sea -- A river of wind -- Clambakes of antiquity -- The ice drills -- HTHH -- Your career of choice -- In the month of farch. |
| Subject |
Rappaport, Elliot.
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Marine meteorology.
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Weather.
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Seafaring life.
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Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
Captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships |
| ISBN |
9780593185056 (hardcover) |
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0593185056 (hardcover) |
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