| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 314 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-314). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Humans on the brink of extinction -- Noah's flood -- The population of Australia -- Sea breezes save western culture -- Tempestas Cooritur: the battle of Teutoburg Forest -- Why the sun never sets on the British Isles -- The first kamikaze -- Loss of the true cross -- Greenland's Vikings: victims of climate change and cultural stubbornness -- The treaty that fell from the sky -- My Pope''s better than your pope: Lightning and the great schism -- The mud that made England -- The fog of war -- Lost Siberians -- Which witch did this -- A Protestant wind destroys the spanish armada -- Thanks to the wind the lost colony remains America's greatest mystery -- Gee, it's cold in Russia, part I: Charles XII invades Russia -- The secret of the Stradivarius -- Another Protestant wind blows a new kind to England's Throne -- Ben Franklin and that kite -- Through many dangers, Toils, and snares -- Washington and weather -- Hail to the French Revolution -- rain ruines Robespierre -- The united Irishmen, the French, and the rain -- A slave revolt washed away -- Gee, it's cold in Russia, part II: Napoleon invades Russia -- Does that star - spangled banner yet wave? -- Tecumseh is lost in the fog -- The water of Waterloo -- Gee, it's cold in Russia, part III: A senseless war extended by the weather -- The guy with the sideburns gets stuck in the mud -- The storm that saved civil war prisoners -- what is that guy in "The Scream" Afraid of? -- A gust of wind and aviation obscurity -- El Nino and dashed polar dreams -- Cold shaving and Jacob Schick -- The failure of Forecasting and the death of Lord Kitchener -- Rain clouds put an end to the age of the airship -- Gee, its cold in Finland: the winter war -- Gee, it's cold in Russia, Part IV: Hitler invades Russia -- D-Day -- Blooming with atoms: a new cloud formation, the mushroom -- Sunshine over Hiroshima -- Misreading the monsoons -- Dewey defeats Truman -- Canadian chill saves a national park from nuclear contamination -- Heat and the powder keg, -- Making monsoons -- Lucy and her friends -- Operation thwarted by Desert Storm --Meteorology and rocketry -- Blood rain and world war III, -- Nature does not carry a passport. |
| Subject |
Weather -- History.
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Weather -- Social aspects.
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Climate and civilization.
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| ISBN |
0060839821 |
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9780060839826 |
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