Wind

How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land

Jan DeBlieu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2015
Open Road Media (Verlag)
978-1-5040-0835-8 (ISBN)

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The wind has sculpted Earth from the beginning of time, but it has also shaped humans—our histories, religions and cultures, the way we build our dwellings, and how we think and feel. In this poetic, acclaimed work, Jan DeBlieu takes the tempests of her home, the North Carolina Outer Banks, as a starting point for considering how the world’s breezes and gales have made us who we are. She travels widely, seeking out the scientists, sailors and sages who, like her, are haunted by the movement of air.

Jan DeBlieu is the author of four nonfiction books and dozens of articles and essays about nature, people, and our deep attachment to the places where we live and work. Wind was awarded the 1999 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing, the highest national honor in the genre.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.5.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	1-5040-0835-9 / 1504008359
ISBN-13	978-1-5040-0835-8 / 9781504008358
Zustand	Neuware