Christopher Dewdney

18 Miles

The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather

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Produktbeschreibung

Where does weather come from? Prize-winning author Christopher Dewdney crafts an answer that is at once poetic and scientific in this reflection on the thin band of atmosphere that keeps humanity breathing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 138mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9781770413467
• ISBN-10: 1770413464
• Artikelnr.: 50911475

Autorenporträt

Christopher Dewdney is the award-winning, bestselling author of four books of nonfiction and eleven books of poetry. A four-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award, he won the CBC Literary Competition for poetry and has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Christopher lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing at York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Stormy with a Chance of Life: The Improbable Birth of Our Atmosphere
2. The Wild Blue Yonder: The Layers of the Atmosphere
3. Cloud Nine: Inside the Misty Giants above Our Heads
4. The Poem of Earth: Rain
5. The Secret Life of Storms
6. Katrina: The Life Story of a Hurricane
7. Palace of the Winds
8. Which Way the Wind Blows: The Story of Weather Forecasting
9. Apollo’s Chariot: The Seasons
10. A Cold Place: Winter and the Ice Ages
11. Climate Change Past and Present
12. Weather That Changed History
Postscriot: Fire, Water, Earth, Air
Appendix: Measurement Conversions
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index