Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
And Soon I Heard A Roaring Wind - Bill Streever

And Soon I Heard A Roaring Wind

A Natural History of Moving Air

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2016
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-41060-1 (ISBN)
CHF 36,15 inkl. MwSt
  • Titel ist leider vergriffen;
    keine Neuauflage
  • Artikel merken
A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold.
Wind: you feel it every day, but you never think about its place shaping history. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them. Narrating from a 50-year-old sailboat, Streever travels from Texas to Guatamala leading readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by changing weather. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, storms, early maps, WWII and the Wright Brothers, dunes and the Dust Bowl, shipwrecks, windmills and wars, drawing from history, business, science, and travel.
AND SOON I HEARD A ROARING WIND is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love.

Bill Streever is the author of the national bestseller Cold and Heat. He chairs the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel in Alaska and serves on many related committees, including a climate change advisory panel. A biologist, he lives with his son in Anchorage, where he hikes, bikes, camps, scuba dives, and cross country skies, as often as the weather allows.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 23 b/w photos run with text
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 244 mm
Gewicht 492 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10 0-316-41060-8 / 0316410608
ISBN-13 978-0-316-41060-1 / 9780316410601
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Digitalisierung neu denken für eine gerechte Gesellschaft

von Mina Saidze

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
Quadriga (Verlag)
CHF 27,95
Vom Perceptron zum Deep Learning

von Daniel Sonnet

Buch | Softcover (2022)
Springer Vieweg (Verlag)
CHF 27,95