The Story
Weather is one of the common denominators of our lives. It helps shape our culture, character, conduct, and health. It frequents the pages of our history and can change its course. It colors our conversations, folklore, and literature; it rains on our parades, awes us with its power and beauty, frightens us and sometimes kills us.Weatherwise MagazineThis important new book places weather in the context of mankinds experience and current understanding of it. The History of Weather provides an interesting and valuable discussion of our interaction so far with this mysterious and powerful component of nature which is so interwoven with mankinds daily lives and well being.
Description
Weather is one of the common denominators of our lives. It helps shape our culture, character, conduct, and health. It frequents the pages of our history and can change its course. It colors our conversations, folklore, and literature; it rains on our parades, awes us with its power and beauty, frightens us and sometimes kills us.Weatherwise MagazineThis important new book places weather in the context of mankinds experience and current understanding of it. The History of Weather provides an interesting and valuable discussion of our interaction so far with this mysterious and powerful component of nature which is so interwoven with mankinds daily lives and well being.
