Author : Lee Sandlin
Release : 2014-03-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Storm Kings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Storm Kings write by Lee Sandlin. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Storm Kings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.